... status was essential.
This double failure forced Putin into a sharp turn in the second half of the 2010s. From the outside, this looked like a turn from a Greater Europe toward a Greater Eurasia, which many took for a pivot to the East, specifically to China.
In fact, this was a pivot by Russia toward itself, in search of a balancing point in a quickly changing global environment. Russia’s current self-determination is an affirmation of itself as a major independent power in the north of the Eurasian ...
China has repeatedly expressed its interest in studying Russia’s experience of setting up its own missile warning system. And it would seem that Moscow has decided to meet these requests
RIAC expert
Dmitry Stefanovich
comments on President Vladimir ...
... Arabia’s oil production, if only for a time, will primarily hit Asian countries, which account for about 80 percent of
Saudi Aramco
’s exports. These countries can make up for the shortage in three ways. First, they can use their own strategic reserves (China’s reserves alone are
estimated
at about 700 million barrels, however, there is no historic precedent for such steps); second, they can switch to other oil grades, that is, in the absence of
Arab Light
and
Arab Super Light
they can import heavier/lighter ...
Since neither Russia nor China can countervail the US-led Western alliance on its own, a closer equation is needed between the two
Each of us has his own definition of “geo-history”, and mine is the interface of the “geopolitical” and the “world-historical.”
We ...
... the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting with a delegation of Chinese experts
On September 18, 2019, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting with a delegation of Chinese experts.
The delegation from China, led by Yu Hongjun, Vice president of Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament, Former Vice-Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of Communist Party of China, included leading experts from the Institute ...
On September 11, 2019, Beijing hosted a seminar focusing on the impact of new technologies on international relations. The event was organized by Huayu analytical center.
On September 11, 2019, Beijing hosted a seminar focusing on the impact of new technologies on international relations. The event was organized by Huayu analytical center. During the seminar, Nikolay Markotkin, RIAC Media and Government Relations Manager, gave a lecture on the impact of AI technologies on the world economy and...
... reapplying unilateral sanctions and enforcing them all signatories or depriving Germany and Europe from pursuing investments and progress with Nord Stream II while expanding Permian oil and gas basin on full speed, or its growing and guided trade war with China and lately India are all signs of major concern for the custodian of the global reserve currency.
New World Begets a New Bank
As a default mode, China should also beware that “the sanctioned objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.” ...
... their pessimism seems to have been proven correct, in the main, or more correct than the optimists.
The next matryoshka doll was the view that the USSR could go it alone with its allies within the socialist camp, even if there was no consensus with China, in the teeth of objections from China and in the face of active antipathy from China. China too would make this mistake later, in relation to the USSR. By “go it alone” or go it with one’s allies but without each other, not only meant in ...
Maintaining relations as a kind of “not fully formed union” has its benefits for both Russia and China
Russia–China military cooperation is gaining momentum. Since the start of the year, the sides have conducted naval exercises, the first joint patrol of bomber aircraft and a series of joint military competitions. Theatre of war missile defense ...
... juxtaposing Argentina, Mexico, and the ilk. While no longer being lackadaisical, India’s view of Latin America still seems beset, by whimsicality and flippancy, and would do well to draw on certain instructive lessons, on how its inevitable peer competitor China, trenchantly cultivates the region.
Victoria Panova:
BRICS Summit: A Blessing in Disguise
The well-established prime-mover, in any mutually beneficent international relationship, is the productivity and vibrancy of its economic dimension. India ...
