ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to spell out some of the features of Soviet economic relations with Far Eastern states, with particular reference to Japanese–Soviet economic relations, and to discuss their prospects. It considers the political implications of Soviet economic relations with these countries. The chapter deals with the economic dimension of Soviet–Far Eastern relations, Soviet foreign trade, which is always conducted in the form of a state monopoly, can only adequately be discussed in the context of overall Soviet foreign policy. Since the emergence of Japan–Soviet Siberian development projects in the late 1960s, project trade has become an important element in the trade between the two states. The political and economic factors expected to have considerable influence over the future trend of Japanese–Soviet economic relations are of course interrelated. Soviet economic aid to Mongolia is enormous. Japanese–Soviet economic relationships are not independent of politics either.
