... leadership will preserve and further develop the system that served the people so well over last more than 70 years.
Zhao Huasheng:
Bipolarity and its Relations with Multipolarity and Unipolarity
This statement did not come as a surprise to numerous China watchers all over the world. In fact, the critical choice between socialism and Western-type liberalism was not made in November of 2021, but decades ago.
One can argue that the outcomes of the sixth plenary session are yet another manifestation ...
... transform everything else in the world in accordance with its values. These included the universalisation of the collective West and the spread of the American-centric “New World Order”. It was then that the goal of American policy towards Russia and China became their liberal-democratic transformation in accordance with Western patterns and integration into the American-centric world as junior players. US policy objectives regarding so-called “Rogue countries” (that is, those who stubbornly did ...
... implications” collecting distinguished Russian and Chinese experts to exchange opinions on various related issues.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Zhao Huasheng, Professor at the Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, and China Forum Expert, delivered welcoming remarks.
During the roundtable the experts discussed the prospects of the political evolution of Taliban, latest developments in Afghanistan, influence and interests of the regional players involved, including those ...
Armenia needs to explore what it wants to get from cooperation with China and what it has to offer to Beijing
There was, in fact, a good opportunity to strengthen relations between Armenia and China as the two sides signed the Memorandum on Promotion of Cooperation in Building the Silk Road Economic Belt within the ...
... Washington’s expanded share in India’s weapons procurement. There are many reasons for New Delhi’s rapprochement with its overseas partner. The main point is clear, though: India’s mounting concerns over sustained economic and military rise in China, its close neighbor.
While India could set out to single-handedly counterweigh China some fifty years ago, the situation today is that economic discrepancies and the military-strategical gap between the two great powers in Asia have widened so much ...
On November 3-4, 2021, Peking University is hosting the eighth meeting of the “North Pavilion Dialogue”, an annual high-level international seminar focusing on topical issues of international relations and security
On November 3-4, 2021, Peking University is hosting the eighth meeting of the “North Pavilion Dialogue”, an annual high-level international seminar focusing on topical issues of international relations and security.
The meeting gathered former foreign ministers and other high-ranking...
... clear limit of political and normative expansion. Middle East interventions have been phased out, although the global presence remains. The “waves of democracy” have faded so far. The second is the growth of major rivals in the face of Russia and China. Both countries pose a serious military and political challenge. In addition, China is developing at a faster pace technologically, while Russia retains its technological groundwork in the field of defence and security. The third is the accumulation ...
The United Nations is much bigger than its Security Council, all the importance of UNSC notwithstanding
When it comes to reforms of the United Nations, it is indispensable for China and Russia, as long-time UN champions and supporters, to take the lead in promoting bottom-up approach to UN reforms. Moscow and Beijing have already accumulated a lot of experience in working together in drafting UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions,...
... end of Shinzo Abe’s long period of leadership, Japan has a new prime minister once again. The greatest foreign policy challenge the new Japanese government led by Fumio Kishida is facing is the intensifying confrontation between its large neighbor China and its main ally America. In addition to moves to energize the Quad group to which Japan belongs alongside Australia, India, and the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has concluded a deal with Canberra and London to provide ...
... with Beijing over the Taiwan question
The situation around the island of Taiwan is raising concerns not only in Chinese mainland, Taiwan island or in the US, but also in the whole world. Nobody would like to see a large-scale military clash between China and the US in the East Pacific. Potential repercussions of such a clash, even if it does not escalate to the nuclear level, might be catastrophic for the global economy and strategic stability, not to mention huge losses in blood and treasure for ...
