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BENIAMIN MAILYAN
Conclusion
In sum, it can be stated that Georgian authorities have to pay special
attention to the development of the transit-service functions of the country
for a long time. In this regard, foreign political priorities seem to require
rethinking. It is not an easy task for Tbilisi to find an acceptable modus
vivendi between the previously valued foreign policy focus on the EU and
the US and their current extremely active participation in the geo-economic
projects of China. In addition, the current Georgian leadership, unlike the
previous leaders of the country, have modified their foreign policy tactics.
Their previous strategic doctrine – joining NATO and the EU – would see
them in confrontation with the Kremlin. Leading Georgia into a new phase
of intense conflict with its northern neighbor would disrupt its hopes of
becoming a transit corridor. All these open up the prospect of Georgia's
foreign policy to make more in agreement with current international
processes. In the next decade, there will be a crucial need to be more clearly
defined by international imperatives.
While Georgia has the capacity to help build regional infrastructure,
the success of the initiative depends on effective cooperation between large
regional actors and their ability to acknowledge the prospect of the SREB
initiative. For developing the importance of the Belt and Road Initiative to
Beijing’s relations with Moscow, it is very important for China to promote
the paradigm of the compatibility of economic corridors for their harmonic
development. Moreover, there is some reason to believe that in the near
future of the strategic partnership between China and Russia, a parity
agreement can be reached between the two powers of the multi-vector model
of transporting goods and resources within the framework of the
convergence of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEC) and the SREB. It
should also be noted that the very real possibility of the growth of China’s
role in Eurasia based on the SREB initiative has also put forward a new
vision for the theoretical construction of Chinese Eurasianism which begs
further study.
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