On October 29, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council hosted presentation of its tenth annual “Russian-Chinese Dialogue: 2024 model” report. The publication was prepared in partnership with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Institute of International Studies of Fudan University (Shanghai, China).
The presentation was structured as a dialogue between the authors and experts in the respective fields, both Russian and Chinese. The discussion was designed to summarize the interim results of Russian-Chinese interaction in 2023-2024 and identify contention points, locate areas for deeper scientific and academic discussion, and provide expert-level recommendations.
In the opening session, Andrei Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, Kirill Babaev, ICCA Director and Zhao Lun, Deputy Director of the Institute of Global Governance Studies of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies all mentioned the current political conditions and their effect on the Russia-China dialogue. Zhao Lun highlighted the lack of international attention to global development and the prevalence of security issues on the global agenda. At the same time, according to Kirill Babaev, it is Moscow and Beijing that can change the game and establish new multilateral institutions equipped to resolve disagreements.
On October 29, 2024, the Russian International Affairs Council hosted presentation of its tenth annual “Russian-Chinese Dialogue: 2024 model” report. The publication was prepared in partnership with the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICCA RAS) and the Institute of International Studies of Fudan University (Shanghai, China).
The presentation was structured as a dialogue between the authors and experts in the respective fields, both Russian and Chinese. The discussion was designed to summarize the interim results of Russian-Chinese interaction in 2023-2024 and identify contention points, locate areas for deeper scientific and academic discussion, and provide expert-level recommendations.
In the opening session, Andrei Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, Kirill Babaev, ICCA Director and Zhao Lun, Deputy Director of the Institute of Global Governance Studies of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies all mentioned the current political conditions and their effect on the Russia-China dialogue. Zhao Lun highlighted the lack of international attention to global development and the prevalence of security issues on the global agenda. At the same time, according to Kirill Babaev, it is Moscow and Beijing that can change the game and establish new multilateral institutions equipped to resolve disagreements.
The first session focused on the problematic issues of bilateral interaction between Russia and China, namely limitations to the growth of trade turnover, restrictions in finance and banking, transportation and logistics. Presentations were made by Sergey Tsyplakov, Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics at the Higher School of Economics, Vladimir Danilov, Senior Researcher at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis of ICCA RAS, and Sergey Sazonov, Senior Researcher at the Center for Socio-Economic Studies of China of ICCA RAS, Ekaterina Zaklyazminskaya, Senior Researcher at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis of ICCA RAS, Vladimir Portyakov, Senior Researcher at the Center for Political Studies and Forecasts of ICCA RAS, and Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Studies of MGIMO.
Building political and economic structures in Central Asia, aligning China's One Belt, One Road initiative with the Eurasian Economic Union's (EAEU) development plans, assessing the role of multilateral institutions in Eurasian security architecture were the main topics of the second session. The discussion of challenges to development in Eurasia involved Yuri Kulintsev, Director of the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis at the ICCA RAS, Ma Bin, Deputy Director of Center for Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies (CSCOS Fudan), Artem Pylin, Head of the Sector of Bilateral Relations between Russia and Neighboring Countries at the Institute of Economics RAS, Elena Kuzmina, Leading Researcher of the Central Asia Sector at the Primakov Institute Center for Post-Soviet Studies, and others. Russian and Chinese visions of political and strategic interaction in Eurasia were presented by Julia Melnikova, RIAC Program Manager, Xu Changzhi, Deputy Secretary General of the China-Russia Strategic Cooperation Council of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Xue Fuqi, Principal Researcher at the Institute of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia CASS.
The sessions were moderated by Yulia Melnikova and RIAC Program Coordinator Gleb Gryzlov, respectively.
