Russia announced a plan last year to transfer its diplomatic and trade relations eastward from Europe to the Asia-Pacific region.
But experts say that the plan, which is called “the hub to Asia,” has encountered difficulties and criticism.
Russia’s threat stance against Ukraine in recent months has attracted widespread attention from the international community, but so far, the “hub to Asia” has received less attention.
At the end of last year, the Washington, DC-based Jamestown Foundation summarized the obstacles to the “hub” seen by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
During his first appointment as Prime Minister of the Russian Far East, Mishustin discovered that the local port of Magadan had insufficient infrastructure support for international trade.