Cross-Border Trade and Integration between Russia and China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Review of the Book by N. Ryzhova «The Economic Integration of Border Regions»)

Tochkov, Kiril

Publication

Cross-Border Trade and Integration between Russia and China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Review of the Book by N. Ryzhova «The Economic Integration of Border Regions»)

Tochkov, Kiril

Publisher

Economic Research Institute, FEB, RAS

Date

2014

Abstract

Russia�s trade with China has been steadily increasing over the past decade. But in recent months the economic cooperation between the two countries experienced a sudden boost that involved high-level meetings, a long-term multi-billion dollar contracts to deliver Russian gas to China, a ten-fold rise in the yuan-ruble trade on the Moscow Exchange, and the revival of a plan to build a bridge across the Amur River linking the two countries. The regions in Russia�s Far East located along the Chinese border are best placed to benefit from this intensification of cross-border ties. But are they really?