About Li Lifan
Li LIfan is an an Associate Research Professor at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS), Deputy Secretary-General of Centre for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies at SASS, and Council member of Shanghai Society of Russia and Central Asia.

Vladimir Putin’s attempts
to draw the countries of central Asia into his fledgling Eurasian Union creates
a dilemma for some of them: if they take up his offer, they might lose their
valuable trading links with China. Li Lifan and Raffaello Pantucci discuss their options.





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