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Explaining the 2014 Sino–Russian Gas Breakthrough: The Primacy of Domestic Politics

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  • Morena Skalamera

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On 21 May 2014, during a state visit by President Vladimir Putin to Beijing, China and Russia signed a $400 billion, 30-year gas deal. Under this agreement, China will import 38 billion cubic metres of natural gas from Russia’s Gazprom, beginning in 2018. Why, after 15 years of stalemated negotiations, did this breakthrough occur in 2014? Why did a natural, symbiotic gas relationship not develop earlier and more gradually? Most studies explain this by looking at Russia’s international isolation post Ukraine. Based on interviews with both Chinese and Russian officials this article argues the following: domestic incentives, rather than foreign-policy pressures, are the real force behind the timing of Sino–Russian energy breakthroughs in 2014.

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  • Morena Skalamera, 2018. "Explaining the 2014 Sino–Russian Gas Breakthrough: The Primacy of Domestic Politics," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 70(1), pages 90-107, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:70:y:2018:i:1:p:90-107
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1417356
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