Eurasia: Playing Field or Battle Field? Defining an Effective German and European Approach on Connectivity toward China and Russia
Eurasia is emerging as a fluid space in which Russia and China are challenging the Western liberal order. Moscow and Beijing are linking their Eurasian integration projects, the
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the
Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Driven by Moscow’s geopolitical aspirations and protectionist agenda in the former Soviet space, the EAEU promotes a
closed economic regionalism. In this analysis for the
German Council on Foreign Relations,
Jacopo Maria Pepe notes that to avoid marginalization, the EU and Germany should define an interest-driven, flexible and regionally diversified approach toward Moscow and Beijing, focusing on Greater Central Asia and Greater Eastern Europe.
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