The Sino-Russian Rapprochement Through the Prism of the Development of the Russian Far East: Identity Contestations and Conflicting Representations of China in Russian Eastern Frontiers

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1344-0_11" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1344-0_11</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1344-0_11" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-981-19-1344-0_11</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Sino-Russian Rapprochement Through the Prism of the Development of the Russian Far East: Identity Contestations and Conflicting Representations of China in Russian Eastern Frontiers

Original language description

This chapter examines intersections between Russia’s China policy and the Far Eastern development strategy, with a focus on Primorye. Primorye is a particularly interesting venue for a case study of Sino-Russian interactions because it is both far from and important to Moscow. The distance between Vladivostok, the capital of Primorye, and Moscow spans seven time zones and 5,770 miles. China, on the other hand, is right on Primorye’s doorstep. In the mid-2000s, Primorye and, specifically its capital Vladivostok, became a showcase for Russia’s “turn to the East.” Drawing on the case of Primorye, the chapter illustrates contingencies, complexities, challenges, and paradoxes that underpin the development of Sino-Russian relations and identify the implications of closer ties between Beijing and Moscow for the development of the Far East. Drawing on interviews and extensive fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2021, we show that the “turn to the East” promotes political rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing but does not facilitate establishing harmonious relations between communities along the Sino-Russian border and hardly facilitates the modernization of the regional economy. Overall, Russia’s inconsistent attitudes towards China reveal the fragile foundation of Sino-Russian friendship as well as complex internal identity contradictions that prevents Russia’s Far Eastern provinces from fully embracing the opportunities that China’s rise might offer them.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

China in the Global South: Impact and Perceptions

ISBN

978-981-19134-4-0

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

233-256

Number of pages of the book

288

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Singapore

UT code for WoS chapter

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