In the recent history of the world geopolitical order of the United States in Europe was linked to the creation of staging penetration in Eurasia under the banner of "the real" democracy. Naturally, the most important stop on this road was Russia.
Time does not wait for last 2013 proved a landmark for China to actively build their foothold in Eurasia, including the Greater Europe.
Beijing voiced the next stage of its foreign expansion strategy, relying on its economic strength and investment - the super establishing "economic zone of the Silk Road." However, quite in the spirit of the Chinese tradition, the main geopolitical aim hide behind nice-sounding poetic images and revealed to the outside world gradually (strategy "pearl necklace" strategy "deep water", etc.). That is, the world is gradually presented interim foreign and economic problems so that, eventually, to achieve general geostrategic goal.
Let's try to guess what exactly it is.
The super "economic zone of the Silk Road" purposes, no more no less, to unite the great Eurasian space, ie China, Central Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, with a population of three billion people and large regional markets. The project will be implemented in a multidimensional space communication, ie within individual "zones" - transport, trade, energy, information, scientific, agricultural and tourism in the pipeline to ensure the security and political interaction.
Economic zone of the Silk Road and the maritime Silk Road in the twenty-first century. Sup: Xinhua News AgencyA unique feature of the super Chinese, unlike other integration projects is the absolute absence of political claims to the participants.
As is known, the failed American regional geopolitical projects "Great Central Asia", "Greater Middle East" or "New Silk Road" implies, first, the power "democratization" of these regions, which in practice leads only to chaos.
In turn, the Kremlin does not concentrate its efforts to increase the economic power, modernization and construction of modern public transportation, and to persuade the post-Soviet states of the advantages of its own Eurasian project and "repression" (as claimed by the Chinese media) of the EU from Eastern Europe .
In contrast, Beijing implemented its expansion through large-scale investment, modernized transportation infrastructure and without imposing any political conditions of local governments.
Thus, after the failures of Eurasian geopolitics of the US, China offers the people of the supercontinent alternative project: its post-communist "pearl necklace" against democracy "loop of Anaconda."
It is time to start to get used to the new forms of international regionalization, which is based not "political union" or forced "democratization" and cross-border communication corridors. Their basis are impressive transport and logistics units created through the economic, investment and technological power of China.
Some Russian analysts do not consider it appropriate to name the project "Economic Belt of the Silk Road", preferring it to the "Eurasian economic union". This is not quite true. Following ancient Chinese tradition, Beijing, by definition, does not intend to establish or enter into alliances with anyone. In this regard, recall that the name of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization does not include the word "union", so you clearly given to understand who dominate it.
"The economic zone of the Silk Road", along with the revival of "Maritime Silk Road" and the international economic corridors "Bangladesh - China - India - Myanma", "China - Pakistan (Baluchistan)" and "China - Tajikistan - Iran 'and the creation of a Chinese port "outposts" in Southeast Europe talk about Beijing's intention to undermine its soft "economic" control Eurasia from the Pacific to Eastern and Western Europe. In practice, we first outline sufficiently clear outline of the super Eurasian Chinese, which will now have to comply and strategists EU and Russian plans for the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Chinese the super part of the logic of classical geopolitics and the formula "Whoever controls Eurasia, rule the world." Beijing rightly believes that Washington has been unable to cope with this task. For the first time in several decades, ie since the start of the Chinese reforms since Beijing violate the taboo and afford to make ostrokritichna assessment of foreign events. So officious "Zhanminzhibao" without excessive delicacy gave the following characterization of US policy in Eurasia, "Washington abuse status of superpower and led to even more chaos in the world."
Over the past two decades, the European protectorate of America (EU) also launched an offensive in the East, to the borders of the great Eurasian steppe, using for this purpose called. "European Integration". In the process, Brussels promised post-states, which until 1989 was part of the Soviet geopolitical space that they will become part of the enchanting "Euroland". But if the first wave of European integration still felt, even partially, the benefits of infrastructure transformations amid their de-industrialization, Bulgaria and Romania, as well as the queue Balkan countries can not wait for them. As a result, local politicians Euro-optimists risk being swept away by the electorate because of undue ripped his populism.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Communist China, in fact, mastered the Soviet "legacy" in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Now comes the turn of Europe to overestimate their abilities, undertaking a major expansion in the East. The formation of Chinese economic foothold in Europe is part of the Eurasian geopolitics of Beijing after the failure of American geopolitics in Eurasia and weakening economic power of the EU. In November 2013, practically parallel to the meeting of the participants in the "Eastern Partnership" in Vilnius, Bucharest hosted a meeting of leaders of the 16 countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a Chinese delegation led by Prime Minister Li Keqiang. As is known, Brussels has serious difficulties with the modernization of the infrastructure of the new EU members, while China offers them the implementation of major infrastructure projects for the food supply. The meeting in question was signed in Bucharest Investment Grants. In 2012 the volume of trade turnover between China and CEE countries reached 50 billion. Dollars (10% of the total trade turnover between China and Europe). Beijing announced that it opened a new credit line of 10 billion. Dollars for the countries of the region with the aim of realization of joint infrastructure projects. Chinese companies have already funded the construction of the railway line between Hungary and Serbia started the implementation of infrastructure, energy and agricultural projects in Romania. Bucharest considered China's best friend in Asia, and Beijing consider Romania as the most faithful partner in the EU. And these are not just empty words, since the Romanian-Chinese business relations are developing successfully for 65 years.
Bucharest Summit demonstrated the parties' intentions to implement investment projects without the participation of the EU. This caused a panic in Brussels, who accused Beijing that has a policy of "divide and rule" and the European Commission unsuccessfully asked the new members of the Union to abandon the signing of agreements with the Chinese.
China is working to develop several economic (port) outposts in Greater Europe and the first in Greece, Romania and Ukraine (in Crimea, who had meanwhile joined Russia). Thus, Beijing support Greece during the crisis by buying part of its debt and make significant investments in the development of the port of Piraeus and Athens International Airport. China lowered Greece's loan of 5 billion. Dollars for modernization of commercial and fleet and purchase of 162 Chinese ship. Mutually beneficial cooperation is conditioned by the fact that China holds about one third of the global market in shipbuilding and Greek ship owners control a significant proportion of freight by sea.
The rich historical and cultural heritage and the favorable climate in Greece became one of the world leaders in the field of tourism. Not surprisingly, managing high hopes on the development of this sector, which can provide up to one third of the growth in its GDP. Moreover, relying mostly Chinese tourists. In China itself experienced explosive growth of tourism trips abroad, leading to a serious transformation of the European tourist market, where in the last hundred years dominated the citizens of Western countries. More in the next few years the number of Chinese tourists in Europe could exceed 50 million. People. Greece is again first among their favorite destinations, so it is predicted that soon the number of Chinese tourists in the country will reach the astronomical figure of 20 million. People.
But if Greece and Romania Chinese build staging penetration in Western Europe and CEE Ukraine until recently was regarded by them as a possible staging ground for the expansion of their economic presence in Eastern Europe and the CIS. Chinese planned to invest in the construction of port infrastructure in Ukraine. In Beijing viewed the Crimea as part of the Chinese project "Maritime Silk Road", intending to create Crimean area of economic and technological development in the area of Sevastopol. Of course, now he will have to discuss these plans with Russia, but given the major economic agreements between the two countries, signed at the end of May 2014, this is hardly a problem. Moreover, the Chinese have already expressed a desire to participate in the project to build a road and rail bridge between mainland Russia and the Crimea over the Kerch Strait. In addition, Beijing plans to build a new port in the Odessa region (Hadzhibeevskiya Firth).
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