US-Chinese relations will most likely follow a course of controlled rivalry over the next four years
During his time in office in 2016-2020, Donald Trump revealed his support for the increasing containment of the PRC. His anti-Chinese rhetoric was combined with very specific restrictive measures against Beijing. A number of new legal mechanisms have emerged that imply sanctions against China and are enshrined in both federal law and presidential decrees. In other words, the attack on Beijing was...
Washington's desire to establish a dialog on arms control and risk reduction with Moscow and Beijing, albeit with each of them separately, looks very cynical
Relations between Russia and China today are stable and characterized by an elevated level of mutual trust. The rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing takes place against the backdrop of pressure from the United States and its allies at the regional and global levels. This competition, and even confrontation, has a pronounced military-technical...
... outrage among Muslim countries, as it left them powerless to stop the humanitarian disaster in Gaza unfolding before them. These countries are no strangers to American betrayal. Over the past couple of decades, they have witnessed
Washington use false accusation as casus belli to attack Iraq,
leave their Kurdish allies at the Turks’ mercy
and
abandon Afghanistan to the Taliban
after occupying the country for over two decades under the pretense of promoting liberal democracy. To these countries, Washington ...
The ICE alliance has more geopolitical and geostrategic rationale 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...
The Old World is extremely vulnerable to an American leader who could depart from the liberal Atlantic consensus
If I wanted to ape the mood of erstwhile Soviet political essays, I’d write something like this:
“The loud echo of gunshots in Pennsylvania resounded across the Atlantic…”
You can argue about the appropriateness of using a stylebook long consigned to history, but it’s the truth of the matter.
Across the European Union, they‘re in shock at what is happening in the United States. In...
... These and other questions were addressed by Vladimir Morozov, Vice-Rector of MGIMO University, in an interview for RIAC with its Program Coordinator Ivan Bocharov.
Vladimir Mikhailovich, not so long ago a delegation from MGIMO University visited Jerusalem and Ramallah, the administrative center of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Could you please tell us about the current situation in Israel and Palestine.
Aleksandr Aksenenok:
Palestinian Statehood after October 7: Any Odds of Success?
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Recent developments indicate improving Syrian-Turkish relations, aiming for regional stability, security cooperation and economic partnerships
Over the past years, Syrian-Turkish relations have experienced significant fluctuations, ranging from tension and hostility to recent attempts at normalization. Some signs suggest a mutual desire to enhance relations, evident in meetings at various levels, notably involving intelligence agency directors and foreign ministers.
Ilya Vedeneyev:
Syria–Turkey...
While the US-led group enforces rigid bloc discipline, the world’s emerging powers extol flexibility
Two events – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pomp-filled visit to Moscow and the 75th anniversary NATO summit in Washington – coincided this week. The coincidence is remarkable because they illustrate two contrasting models for organising inter-state relations. The direction of world politics will largely depend on which of them prevails.
Russian-Indian relations are a vast and complex phenomenon...
... Trump's administration where his leadership kept the world a safer place by wielding a big stick whereas all hell broke out once Biden came to power with Iran leading the worst terrorist attack since 911 by its proxies on Israel that has resulted in thousands of lives lost in an effort to eliminate Hamas. Then we have Biden's expansionist NATO policy into Ukraine threatening Russia that resulted in a terrible conflict where Ukrainians are being fed into the meat grinder in a war that NATO cannot win....
Can the US achieve affluence and prosperity at the expense of its partners?
One of the prime tools of the US economic strategy these days is foreign trade tariffs. The country that used to be a resolute champion of free trade is now very persistent in protecting its domestic markets from foreign competition. The explicitly protectionist approach to international trade goes back to at least the Donald Trump administration and it has continued throughout the current Joe Biden administration. China...
