Beijing is rather reluctant to get deeply involved in intra-regional politics in the Middle East, as this could provoke new tensions with the U.S.
The current escalation in the Middle East has been described by many as a test of influence for China. For example, the media repeatedly suggested that the United States asked China to put pressure on Iran during the latest rounds of escalation, especially after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Yet, if compared to Qatari,...
... discussed the prospects for expanding cooperation between the think tanks, as well as topical issues of Russian-Chinese relations and global agenda.
The meeting took place ahead of the 9
th
International Conference of RIAC and CASS "Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era".
Andrey Kortunov, Academic Director from Russian International Affairs Council spoke to CGTN Europe on Putin’s visit to China.
Andrey Kortunov, Academic Director from Russian International Affairs Council spoke to CGTN Europe on Putin’s visit to China.
The trip is likely to be quite special and important
In mid-May Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will fly to China on an official state visit. A sceptic would say that this visit is not really a big deal: the Russian leader and his Chinese counterpart, Chairman Xi Jinping had bilateral meetings at least forty times since 2013, when Xi was first elected as Chairman ...
...
Almost 17 years ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
pointed out
that the intensive deployment of the theater missile defense system in the Asia Pacific calls global strategic stability into question, because it could be used against Russia and China. In 2018, the head of Russian diplomacy insistently
urged
Japan to enter into a dialogue about the U.S. plans to create a global missile defense system to prevent violation of Russia’s interests, in accordance with the principle of indivisible ...
Beijing offers an alternative to past approaches for the Mashriq states, which have spent many years grappling with internal and external challenges
On November 30, 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry
published
five points of China’s position on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Namely, China called for stopping hostilities, protecting civilians, providing them with humanitarian aid, expanding international diplomatic coordination, along with seeking a common political ...
... political camps, particularly the United States and the USSR, started. This order was maintained by their mutual nuclear deterrence in a politically and ideologically divided world. As a result of the efforts of the Soviet Union, in East European countries, China and several other states Communist parties came to power, and global socialist system emerged. In the rest of the world, under political, ideological, military and economic leadership of the United States market relations were being developed, military ...
... this sense is very illustrative. Russia’s trade and economic interaction with BRICS partners has only grown since the large-scale and unprecedented restrictions were imposed on our country. We are reaching record trade levels with Brazil, India and China.
There has been a steady development of the whole range of cooperation in three key areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian contacts. The recent examples of practical achievements in BRICS include the launch of the BRICS ...
... transformative effect on the Russian-Chinese relations. Even before the conflict the two sides enjoyed robust strategic relationship which was officially called
comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in new era,
a unique status within a wide China’s network of strategic partnerships. The conflict in Ukraine together with the ongoing deterioration of the Sino-American relations have transformed this partnership into a rather close interdependence.
An important feature of this relationship ...
... Still, it is important to understand that Belgrade seeks to keep its foreign policy organized around multiple vectors and considers itself a participant in multilateral UN- and EU-led peacekeeping operations, while maintaining relations with Russia, China, the Gulf nations and other Eastern partners.
The key dilemmas facing Serbia’s new government is whether to impose sanctions against Russia and the issue of negotiations with Pristina.
Russia is critically important for Serbia when it comes to ...
