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China’s rise as a great power is the most important geopolitical challenge confronting the US today. Washington remains concerned over Beijing’s expanding economic and strategic influence around three maritime zones in the Indo-Pacific region, including ...
... signal to Washington that Saudi Arabia is tired of being marginalized and denied representation, as well as of American exceptionalism, a sentiment shared by other countries in the region. “The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back” Yuliya Alekseeva: China in the Mashriq: New Best Friend While countries of the Middle East resent American betrayal, they at least understand it as realpolitik, as the U.S. prioritizing its own national interests and as the America First policy in practice. What they ...
... than economic On July 11, 2024, on the margins of the NATO Summit in Washington, the US, Canada and Finland announced a new trilateral consortium—the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact—with an explicit intention to challenge Russia and China in icebreaker construction and deployment. It is expected that by the end of 2024 the three nations will turn ICE into a detailed business plan with financial projections, binding commitments and specific deadlines. The pact aims to produce a fleet ...
... future security system” was listed as the first principle. Potential “dialogue partners” on these issues obviously also include India, which is designated in the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation as one of the main (along with China) partners on the Eurasian continent. A delicate point here is that India is not in a vacuum, being an integral part of a complex subregional security architecture marked by military and political confrontation between two regional powers (India ...
... ultimately bureaucratic shadow. Ivan Timofeev: Eurasian Security Structure: From Idea to Practice At the 9 th International Conference of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) “ Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era ,” the idea of indivisible security, which forms the conceptual and value core of both Russia’s flagship foreign policy project of building a Greater Eurasian Partnership and China’s fundamental foreign policy project ...
For achieving its ambitious economic and social development goals, China needs a friendly and stable international environment It would not be an overstatement to say that the communique of the third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was closely followed by the whole ...
Policy Brief #52/2024 Policy Brief #52/2024 The role of Central Asian countries in regional and global political processes has increased significantly recently. Russia and China have contributed to this growth more than any other extra-regional player, diversifying their trade and economic ties with Central Asian countries, demonstrating an interest in strengthening their “sustainable security.” At the same time, the ...
... regional institutions and platforms - “brotherly cemeteries”, where individual opportunities are drowned in the need for everyone to come to a common average denominator. Moreover, now these institutions have become an arena of confrontation between China and the United States, which are completely unrestricted in using them exclusively in the interests of their struggle. Previously, only Americans did this, which turned most regional venues into completely meaningless gatherings, like international ...
... strengthening humanitarian ties, and people-to-people cooperation represent a unique example of the constructive dialogue taking place between these two truly sovereign states. Further confirming this dynamic was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China on May 16–17, 2024. Moscow and Beijing relations managed to move beyond historical grievances, political differences and territorial disputes, entering a new responsible stage of building a new type of partnership that is based on mutual respect,...
... employed mainly by some Third World countries, is no longer taboo for the great powers, especially after the events in Yugoslavia in 1999. This increases the likelihood of global war. The main centers of power today are Russia, the United States, and China, whose relations form the “strategic triangle.” Each pursues its own goals by various means. In East Asia, they are forming the military-political alliances of Washington-Tokyo-Seoul and Moscow-Beijing-Pyongyang, which will shape the region’s ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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