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For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the p... more For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the post-Soviet area. In 2001, both states established a comprehensive partnership that had strategic content. Up to 2013, the Crimean Peninsula, alongside with other regions of Southeast Ukraine, was considered as one of the most important strongholds of the Sino-Ukrainian strategic partnership. The situation changed drastically in March 2014. As Russia and the West collided over Ukraine, China took advantage of Russia’s need to avoid broad international isolation and the US and EU’s economic sanctions against Crimea, its inhabitants, other individuals and entities. On the international arena, China follows a strategy of active neutrality on the Ukrainian issue, which prospectively could be added with active economic engagement in Crimea.

Eurasia Border Review, May 31, 2010

, anticipated a strategic partnership between Russia and China as a precondition of Moscow's desi... more , anticipated a strategic partnership between Russia and China as a precondition of Moscow's desire to balance ties to the West and Beijing's plans to improve its international position. 1 Too many people in the U.S. still insist that Russia is not a loyal ally of China and the latter's association with Moscow weakens Beijing's claim to have the institutional and lexical right in reshaping the international order. The leader of the hawks in the current U.S. administration Vice President Joe Biden recently stated in his neglecting Russophobia: "They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years." 2 In the recent years, Russia and the People's Republic of China (PRC) were predominately viewed in the White House as great powers with essential market sectors in their economies and an authoritarian essence of their political regimes, which objectively obstruct the rise of American influence on the global stage. But China's rise became one of the most significant features of the new century, which is hard to ignore. Since economic reforms and a policy of opening up began in 1978, China's investment and export-led economy has seen a 70-fold increase, and is the fastest growing major economy in the world. It now has the world's third largest nominal GDP, reaching 30.067 trillion Renminbi (RMB) yuan (around 4.4216 trillion U.S. dollars). If purchasing power parity is taken into account, the PRC's economy ranks second behind only the U.S. Even in the trying times of global economic crisis, China's GDP growth has remained resilient for the second quarter of 2009, supported by the government's stimulus-fueled plan, accelerating close to 8% from 6.1% in the first three months of the year. China's tertiary industries make up 40.1% of its total economy, an amount close to that of most developed countries. Since China entered the WTO, its foreign trade has expanded drastically. China is now the world's third largest trading power behind the U.S. and Germany and the second largest exporter. Despite the downturn in foreign demand during the second half of last year, total international trade in 2008 grew about 18%, to 2.6 trillion U.S. dollars, with a trade surplus of 295.46 billion U.S. dollars. China is among the world's most desirable destinations for foreign direct investments, attracting more than 92.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2008 alone. Although a certain part of Chinese exports comes from joint ventures (hezi qiye) and foreign companies (duzi qiye) in China, her foreign exchange reserves have reached 2 trillion U.S. dollars, make it the world's

For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the p... more For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the post-Soviet area. In 2001, both states established a comprehensive partnership that had strategic content. Up to 2013, the Crimean Peninsula, alongside with other regions of Southeast Ukraine, was considered as one of the most important strongholds of the
Sino-Ukrainian strategic partnership. The situation changed drastically in March 2014. As Russia and the West collided over Ukraine, China took advantage of Russia’s need to avoid broad international isolation and the US and EU’s economic sanctions against Crimea, its inhabitants, other individuals and entities. On the international arena, China follows a strategy of active neutrality on the Ukrainian issue, which prospectively could be added with active economic engagement in Crimea.

Eurasia Border Review, May 31, 2010

For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the p... more For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the post-Soviet area. In 2001, both states established a comprehensive partnership that had strategic content. Up to 2013, the Crimean Peninsula, alongside with other regions of Southeast Ukraine, was considered as one of the most important strongholds of the
Sino-Ukrainian strategic partnership. The situation changed drastically in March 2014. As Russia and the West collided over Ukraine, China took advantage of Russia’s need to avoid broad international isolation and the US and EU’s economic sanctions against Crimea, its inhabitants, other individuals and entities. On the international arena, China follows a strategy of active neutrality on the Ukrainian issue, which prospectively could be added with active economic engagement in Crimea.