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War in Ukraine: what impact on the "new silk roads"?

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Map of China's New Silk Road, known in China as "The Belt and Road".

Reuters

By: Joris Zylberman Follow

Collateral damage of size: the war in Ukraine has come to crash into the pharaonic project dear to Xi Jinping's China: the "new silk roads".

In particular the rail freight route that connects Chinese territory to Europe, via Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus.

This route has enjoyed growing commercial success in recent years.

Explanations from Françoise Nicolas, Director of the Asia Center of Ifri, the French Institute of International Relations.

  • Ukraine

  • China

  • Russia

  • Trade and Exchanges

  • Belarus

  • Kazakhstan