Open AccessПандемия коронавируса и российско-китайское региональное сотрудничество
Author(s) -
Иван Юрьевич Зуенко
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
izvestiâ vostočnogo instituta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2542-1611
DOI - 10.24866/2542-1611/2020-2/15-28
Subject(s) - china , beijing , alliance , pandemic , xenophobia , political science , covid-19 , development economics , interim , east asia , geography , politics , law , economics , medicine , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Статья посвящена анализу эффектов, которые по состоянию на начало мая 2020 г. оказала пандемия коронавируса COVID‐19 на российско-китайское приграничье. Негативные эффекты пандемии оказались в целом ниже, чем это можно было ожидать, учитывая географическую близость и протяжённость границы. В то же время приостановление трансграничных контактов заметно затормозило развитие ряда интеграционных процессов: в частности, отброшен назад переговорный процесс по либерализации визового режима; сократились российская община в Китае и китайская община в России; нанесён удар по туристической отрасли.Ключевые слова: Китай, Северо-Восточный Китай, Дальний Восток, коронавирус, интеграция, ксенофобияThe article is dedicated to the analysis of the effects of coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic on the processes in the Russo-Chinese borderlands (border regions of Russian Far East and China’s north-eastern provinces) as of May, 1, 2020. The author believes that it is possible to draw some interim conclusions about the situation, despite its high dynamics and unpredictability. According to these conclusions, the pandemic’s negative effects on the social situation and development at the Russo-Chinese border appeared to be less than one could expect – that fact undermines little interdependence between border regions and low intensity of cross-border contacts. Expectations by some Western experts, who believed that tensions between people across the border due to the pandemic spreading would break Russo-Chinese quasi-alliance, seem to be missed as well. Quite the opposite, worsening of contradictions between Washington and Beijing makes Russia and China get closer and closer. Meanwhile, sealing off the border puts a break on development of certain integration processes: liberalization of visa-regime, development of expats communities in both Russia and China.China, North-Eastern China, Russian Far East, coronavirus, integration, xenophobia