В поисках Евразии: сравнительный анализ экспертного и академического дискурсов о евразийском регионализме в России и КНР

Полис. Политические исследования. 2025. № 3. С. 25–40.

Novikov D., Bocharova A.

Russia and China are the leading states of the Eurasian continent, and the dynamics of their relations largely determines the dynamics of geopolitical processes in the region. In this context, the actual question is to what extent the Russian and Chinese ideas about Eurasia, Eurasian regionalism are really close? In the past few years, Russia has made significant efforts to promote its vision of the international order on the continent, including the promotion and content of the very concept of Eurasia in relation to its geopolitical environment. One of the main consumers of these ideas was to be China, Russia's key partner and at the same time the objective engine of many processes in the Eurasian transregional space. Have Russian efforts achieved their goals?

In article, we assume Eurasia as a social construct, which is an element of foreign policy thinking, which should be reflected in scientific and expert discussions. A comparative analysis of Russian and Chinese discourses should make it possible to establish, at least in part, the extent to which Beijing has taken Moscow’s ideas about the development of Eurasian regionalism and how close the understanding, and hence the positions of Russia and China, on the future international order on the continent or in its separate parts.

Keywords: Китай, российско-китайские отношения, Большая Евразия, Greater Eurasia, foreign policy of China, внешняя политика КНР, China-Russia relations, China

Publication based on the results of: Conceptualization of cycles of geopolitical and geo-economic patterns (2024)