The BRI is in line with "our well-known proposal to form a large Eurasian space, as a space of cooperation and interaction of like-minded people, where a variety of integration processes will be linked," the Russian president said, referring to Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Eurasian Economic Union, which Putin said "Russia is successfully developing together with its partners in post-Soviet space."
"The world continues to tolerate the West photocopying football fields of dollars and euros and as long as that happens, the former Great Powers will continue to desperately attack Russia, China and the World Island from every angle – look no further than Palestine today," Brown pointed out.
"It was assumed that colonial Western Europe would control this [above-mentioned] massive landmass, but it is now all the countries of the EAEU and BRI that hold the prize. From Africa to Vladivostok, Eastern Ukraine to Saudi Arabia and Iran, and China to Singapore, it is these peoples, and not the imperial West that control their own destinies," the political scientist concluded.