DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION OF THE CONTEXT OF “ONE BELT, ONE ROAD” INITIATIVE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of developing relations between the Kyrgyz Republic and the PRC within the framework of the SCO in the period from 2013 to 2020. China’s launch of its economic initiative “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) in the autumn of 2013 became a major factor in the further transformation of China’s relations with the countries of Central Asia. These processes naturally affected the most important international regional organization in the region - the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, since it was in its format that a significant part of the cooperation between the Kyrgyz Republic and the PRC proceeded. But with the beginning of the implementation of the BRI by Beijing, a new model of relations between the PRC and the Kyrgyz Republic begins to take shape, in which economic issues were preferred to be resolved bilaterally, and problems related to security issues within the framework of the SCO. But since the Ufa summit of the SCO in 2015, this regional structure has been further developed, as a result of which much more attention is being paid to economic partnership within its framework, which caused a deepening of relations in this area, including between Kyrgyzstan and China.