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Despite an active rapprochement with China, Russia is jealous of similar actions by Kazakhstan. This is felt even during events with a tripartite participation. For example, at the Silk Road Forum in the framework of the AEF, the ECE Minister for Integration Tatyana Valova said that Kazakhstan should be more careful in joint projects with China because of differences in business approaches, mentality and legislation. At that moderated meeting, Sergey Tereshchenko (one of the founders of the Baoist Forum) noted that Kazakhstan had trained tens of thousands of students in China, including the Bolashak program.
The conjugation of the EAEC and the EPPP, announced as early as 2015, is still moving neither wobblyly. Negotiations began only in the summer of this year. Russia offered the whole range of issues to the negotiating delegation of the ECE, Kazakhstan insisted on greater freedom of bilateral relations.
- As a result, investment projects and sectoral cooperation remained in the national competence. If we want to build a CHP plant or a road to Chinese money, it's our business according to their technologies, "said former Minister of Economy and Finance of the ECE and now Minister of National Economy Timur Suleimenov, stating that coordination is sometimes necessary. "China is much more powerful than us, and if we can work out a common position and come forward as a united front in the negotiations, it will be better.
These reservations, however, seem insincere to Russians.
- Our partners in the EEA, as practice shows, prefer bilateral cooperation with China. We are trying to explain to them that, one by one, China will simply crush them with masses, buy up the entire economy and put them in a dependent position, but so far, unsuccessfully. To Kazakhstan, China has promised golden mountains. In practice, this means the transfer of the dirty industries under the reindustrialization dressing and creating jobs, "one of the participants in the negotiation group told the Russian Internet edition Vlast. Another expert believes that the negotiations are affected by the skeptical attitude of the Chinese towards the very idea of the EAEC:
- Unfortunately, both the US and the PRC do not see anything in the EEA, except for the Moscow project on securing Central Asia in its orbit of influence.
"We do not find a clear strategy for cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries," retorts the director of the Institute of Russia at the Chinese Academy of Modern International Relations, Feng Yujun. - In modern integration processes, the one who fits in them before others wins.
Some experts believe that Kazakhstan is selecting Russian transit.
"Transit through Kazakhstan already exceeds transit through Eastern Siberia and the Far East. From 2012 to 2014, the volume of transit traffic from East Asian countries (primarily China) to Europe through Kazakhstan increased more than 2 times - from 39.1 to 91.5 thousand tons. Transit through Eastern Siberia grew by only 4.4 thousand tons, from 68.7 to 73.1 thousand, and through the Far East - by 0.8 thousand tons, from 4.6 to 5.4 thousand, - said in a joint article by Ivan Zuyenko from the Far Eastern University and Semyon Zuban from the Russian Customs office in the Republic of Kazakhstan for the journal of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Within the EAEC itself, coordination also comes with varying success. With a large - on the railway. In September 2016, Russia and Kazakhstan agreed to allow passengers and freight transit trains to pass between them in non-stop mode, without border control. With the automobile road, Western Europe - Western China, there is a discrepancy. The Chinese and Kazakh parts will be completed this year, while in Russia everything is still stuck at the level of feasibility study, the road is promised to be opened only in 2020.
