China's Growing Economic Presence in Ukraine and Belarus

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Notes

1. ‘China is the World's Second Largest Economy’, at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8322550/China-is-the-worlds-second-largest-economy.html.

2. ‘China's Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the US Economy’, at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf.

3. ‘China Gaining Ground in Eastern Europe’, at http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6158308,00.html; ‘China Firms Hit Roadblock in Eastern European Projects’, at http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-01/07/content_11808511.htm.

4. ‘Romanian PM Welcomes More Chinese Investments’, at http://latestchina.com/article/?rid=38101.

5. ‘China's COVEC Terminates A2 Contract’, at http://www.wbj.pl/article-54959-chinas-covec-terminates-a2-contract.html. In the first week of June 2011, COVEC announced that it ceased construction on two sections of the A2 highway between Warsaw and Lodz due to COVEC's failure to pay subcontractors.

6. ‘Ukraine Ties Rejuvenated by “Epochal” State Visit’, at http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7127469.html.

7. ‘Yanukovych in China—Chinese Investments in Ukraine Announced’, at http://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/eastweek/2010-09-09/yanukovych-china-chinese-investments-ukraine-announced.

8. CIA World Factbook: Ukraine, at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html.

9. ‘Andriy Klyuev: The Government is Calling Investors to Come to Ukraine More Actively’, at http://www.me.gov.ua/control/en/publish/article?art_id=160149&cat_id=38912.

10. ‘Belarus Eyes China Projects Worth $10 Billion’, at http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/26/content_9644086.htm.

11. ‘Belarus: China sign $3.4B in contracts’, UPI, March, 25, 2010, at http:/www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/03/25/Belarus-China-sign-34B-in-contracts/UPI-67861269529268.

12. CIA World Factbook: Belarus, at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bo.html.

13. ‘Belarus–China: Steps into the Future’, at http://gate.belta.by/econom_eng.nsf/all/DA40C1E2773129ABC225781C00603D8C/$File/3-1.pdf.

14. Zavelev Igor, ‘Russia's Policy towards Compatriots in the Former Soviet Union’, Russia in Global Affairs, 6(1), 2008, pp. 49–62.