While the West is about to build transport corridors in Eurasia bypassing Russia, Russia itself is also ready to build its own alternative routes, writes the analytical portal Eurasia Review.
One of these routes will be the route through Altai to the PRC - the so-called. Altai corridor. In the Russian Federation itself, first of all, they are talking about the construction of a railway line, although in the future a highway that will connect the Russian Novosibirsk and the Chinese Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, is not excluded.
Among the main reasons for the implementation of such an ambitious project is, in particular, the construction by Kazakhstan of additional barriers to transit goods, where border guards began to carefully check cargo going to the Russian Federation for compliance with sanctions.
Eurasia Review notes the West's hopes that the construction of the Altai route will take many years and ultimately cost Moscow a lot.
It is worth noting the fact that the idea of the Altai transport corridor appeared back in the 1990s or 2000s, but remained as a set of good wishes. In this way, it is akin to the North-South corridor, which has come a long way - almost two decades have passed from slides to the start of concrete implementation on the ground.
It is worth noting that the construction of the Altai transport corridor, which now seems to have virtually no alternative, was stalled for years by periodically heard statements about the inexpediency of such a project. However, at present, they are already planning to supply the most extensive range of goods to the Celestial Empire, in particular, wheat.