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The Missing Road: Clashing Visions of Development across the Russian-Chinese Border

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Pal Nyiri  and
Joana Breidenbach
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In 2004, we visited the Altai Republic, a remote mountainous region in Southern Siberia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China. For some time, the republic had been supposedly involved in an international collaboration called “Altai: Our Common Home,” supported by the German government. The project focused on economic development, tourism, and — somewhat contradictorily — environmental protection. One of the plan's central elements was a road linking the Altai Republic and China: currently, traffic between them has to detour via Kazakhstan or Mongolia. By the end of 2004, a 140 km road on the Chinese side had been completed, but no progress had been made on the Russian side.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 7 , July 2008 , e2
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[1] For a review of dominant “modernization theories” in China, see Barabantseva (2005, Chapter 4).

[2] See article here.

[3] Interview in Artybash, September 15, 2004.

[4] “Ministr ekonomiki Respubliki Altai: Federal'nye vlasti ne namereny sroit' dorogu v Kitay cherez plato Ukok” [Altai Republic's Minister of the Economy Says Federal Government Has No Plan to Build Road Across Ukok Plateau], Regnum September 11, 2006. See article here.