The prospects for regional economic integration between China and the five Central Asian countries

Wu, Hsiu‐Ling; Chen, Chien‐Hsun

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“…Thus, 86 percent of Kazakh exports to China are comprised of petroleum, non-ferrous metals and iron and steel, while 78 percent of Kyrgyz exports consist of aluminum, iron and steel and non-ferrous metals. 154 China's growing economic weight in the region is also reflected in the number of Chinese companies operating throughout the region with, for example, 744 Chinese enterprises (including 40 large companies) established in Kazakhstan, 100 in Uzbekistan and 12 in Kyrgyzstan by 2005. 155 Yet such a lack of diversification in Central Asian exports to China has also resulted in growing concerns in the region that China's economic interests are simply based upon a need to extract natural and mineral resources necessary to fuel its resource-hungry economy.…”

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“Making the Crooked Straight”: China's Grand Strategy of “Peaceful Rise” and its Central Asian Dimension

Clarke¹

2008

Asian Security

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This article argues that China's foreign policy since 1991 has been guided by the evolution of a grand strategy of "peaceful rise" that seeks to ensure China's smooth transition to great power status. Moreover, it suggests that a strategic preoccupation with Central Asia has become an important expression of this grand strategy. Framing these arguments is a third overarching one that postulates that China's foreign policy in Central Asia is not only intimately related to the strategy of "peaceful rise" but also to a particular, historically and geopolitically informed narrative of China's "Inner Asian" power.

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“Making the Crooked Straight”: China's Grand Strategy of “Peaceful Rise” and its Central Asian Dimension

Clarke¹

2008

Asian Security

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“…First, a trading relationship between the two states had to be constructed largely from the ground up. Between 1992 and 2006, bilateral trade grew from US$4.5 million to US$178.6 million, a significant increase but nonetheless still an illustration of the underdeveloped nature of economic ties between the two states (Wu and Chen, 2004, p. 1068; Xinhua China Economic Information Service , 24 April 2007). Second, due to Turkmenistan's geographic seclusion the country has to rely heavily on Moscow for the sale and transport of natural gas to international markets.…”

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China's Energy Security and Eurasian Diplomacy: The Case of Turkmenistan

Lanteigne

2007

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China has made significant strides in developing energy diplomacy in the former Soviet states of Central Asia in the name of diversifying its trading partners. However, the case of Turkmenistan, currently undergoing a complicated leadership transition, provides evidence of China's potential limitations in engaging Central Asia in the hopes of securing nearby sources of oil and gas. The ongoing problems of post‐Soviet governance in Ashgabat and increasing competition for Turkmen natural gas suggest that Beijing may have to better define its economic interests there and allow for increased regional co‐operation building to better manage its Central Asian energy trade.

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“…Kim (1994) suggested that China has become the largest trading partner of the Russian Far East since the collapse of the Soviet Union, mostly as a result of border trade. Wu and Chen (2004) examined Sino-Central Asian economic integration and found that border trade liberalization has had a large effect on the economic development of border regions. Raballand and Andresy (2007) BORDER TRADE AND REGIONAL INTERGRATION 301 trade based on disaggregated trade data.…”

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Border Trade and Regional Integration

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Jiang

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Review Development Economics

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Although it is an important building block of regional integration, very little research has investigated border trade between neighboring countries. This paper fills this gap by examining the patterns and determinants of China's border trade with its neighboring countries. First, a disaggregated, firm‐product level trade data is used to provide a detailed overview of border trade growth and dynamics. The paper shows that trade liberalization has significantly encouraged new firms to enter the export market, and new private firms account for the majority of the expansion in border exports and the shift toward more sophisticated products. Second, a gravity model is used to investigate the determinants of border trade. The results suggest that multilateral and regional integration, market size and institutional quality play important roles in promoting border trade.

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The prospects for regional economic integration between China and the five Central Asian countries

Cited by 22 publications

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“Making the Crooked Straight”: China's Grand Strategy of “Peaceful Rise” and its Central Asian Dimension

“Making the Crooked Straight”: China's Grand Strategy of “Peaceful Rise” and its Central Asian Dimension

China's Energy Security and Eurasian Diplomacy: The Case of Turkmenistan

Border Trade and Regional Integration

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