Dubious Economic Partnership: Why a China-Russia Free Trade Agreement Is Hard to Reach
Journal: China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies
Year: 2016

Since the successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the early 1990s, regional trade agreements of various types, including bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs), have replaced internationally comprehensive agreements as the main driver for development of official trade relations. There is also a tendency for such agreements to extend beyond trade and cover security and other issues. Russia is a “resource-cursed” country like Australia, and there seems to be a prima fac