3rd September, 2012
The meeting of the China-Eurasian Forum in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on Sunday makes an interesting move in regional cooperation on the part of Beijing. The presence of Premier Wen Jiabao at the meeting signified the high importance that Beijing attaches to this initiative. In sum, China is directly wooing its Eurasian allies with audacious offers of building a New Silk Road.
The initiative obviously aims at integrating Xinjiang with the western market. There was high-scale participation in the event by the Central Asian countries. Surprisingly, Russia wasn’t represented at the political level at the event.
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