Why does Armenia not learn from another land-locked mountainous country: Switzerland? Become a secret banking/tax-haven. The useful for all in-between country everyone leaves alone because everyone has some secret to lose...

And reading this >https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-new-silk-road-explainer/ makes it more than clear that also China has a lot at stake in that region and will do all she can to prevent unrest. So there too is a natural ally that should be used.

The same unfortunately cannot be said of the US/UK/NATO. They will do all they can to prevent the Silk Road - the Eurasian land corridor - from happening. Glenn Diesen explains this geo-political system of Maritime hegemony clearly.