Eastern Asia

The ambitious project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which has been repeatedly discussed in NEO, is gradually moving to the center stage in the troubled bilateral relations between the two Asian giants – China and India.

Even before the new president of South Korea entered office, we wrote an article highlighting the problems that awaited the successor to Park Geun-hye’s presidency.

Eurasian economic integration is one of the important goals that Russia and China are striving for. By combining their economies, the countries of Eurasia will be able to turn their region into the most powerful player on the world stage with all the resulting benefits. The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Chinese project ‘New Silk Road’ (NSR) exist for this purpose.

As we have previously noted concerning the problem of “payment for the THAAD”, along with this demand, the US president announced plans for revising the free trade agreement with South Korea, calling its provisions “awful” in terms of profitability.

A month and a half ago, we briefly mentioned the Japanese light aircraft carrier Izumo in connection with the acceleration of political processes on the Asia-Pacific region.

The world expert community is paying a growing amount of attention to all more or less significant events and goings-on in the development of the armed forces of the PRC. Their official name – “People’s Liberation Army of China” – will apparently continue until the solution of the “Taiwan problem”.

April 18 of this year, the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a list of 28 leaders of states, whom the head of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping has invited to participate in the forum on the implementation of his own initiative to revive the ‘Great Silk Road’ (GSR), which will be held May 14-15 in Beijing.

The spring of 2017 was marked by a series of visits to the Republic of Korea by top US officials, analyzing the results of which three points are important in terms of answering the question “How ‘hot’ will 2017 be”.
Let’s start with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit. During the visit to the NEA countries, the American diplomat visited the inter-Korean border and held talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, Yun Byung-se.

The Chinese government newspaper, Global Times, made public that a Hong Kong-based company called Frontier Services Group (FSG) will build two operational bases in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. Xinjiang and Yunnan provinces are at the heart or geographical pivot of China’s vast, developing One Bridge, One Road high-speed rail, port and energy pipeline infrastructure undertaking.

The latest visit of Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Moscow, that occurred on April 27, has undoubtedly been a milestone event that will shape the bilateral relations between Moscow and Tokyo in the future, thus affecting the geopolitical situation on the greater political stage.