... multilateral organizations such as the QUAD. Thus, connectivity projects act as a catalyst for increasing investments.
Emerging Trends in Eurasian Transit Trade and Logistics
Julia Melnikova:
Eurasian Security as a Communicative Practice: Tasks for Russia and China
Connectivity in CIS states has improved significantly, new economic realities have resulted in Central Asian countries reaching new heights, and the complex interdependence has resulted in states resolving issues bilaterally. Recently, Kyrgyzstan ...
... domestically, often at the cost of longstanding alliances and multilateral institutions.
How can the disorders in the current international system be managed? The relative decline of the U.S. and new global policy changes have enabled countries like China, India, and Russia to emerge as global leaders in addressing these disorders. These great powers can potentially reshape the future world order by promoting inclusivity, stability, and order in the current U.S.-dominated, unstable, and disorderly world order. China’s ...
... the IOS RAS. Svetlana Gavrilova, RIAC Director of Programs, moderated the session.
During the first session, the presentation of the RIAC report, “Extra-Regional actors in the Middle East”, was held. The experts discussed regional strategies of Russia, USA, EU, China and India. Speakers in this session were the report authors: Alexander Aksenenok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-President; Alexander Lomanov, Acting Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov ...
... already been said, of economic interest. It is possible that more responsible elites will come to power in Europe in the future, and we should also be prepared for such changes.
The US strategy, as we understand it, will be to try to create a rift in the China-Russia relationship. US representatives have repeatedly said this at a variety of levels, including top officials. So far, the issue has only been raised in the sense that the US will try to ‘pull’ Russia away from China because of the likelihood ...
... preceded by years of mutual accusations, fuelled by new technological realities, the collapse of other arms control mechanisms (including the ABM Treaty), suspicions of new system developments, and the presence of such systems in third countries, notably China. During Trump’s first term, the extension of New START was nearly derailed, only to be salvaged under the Biden administration. In 2023, amid the SMO, Russia suspended its participation in New START.
The Stabilizing “Basic Principles”: Moscow Reduces Options for Pre-Nuclear Escalation. Russia’s leading experts on the new Russia’s nuclear doctrine
The conflict in Ukraine has significantly exacerbated ...
On February 28 – March 1, 2025 the 3rd International Conference “China-Russia Sanya Dialogue” was held in Sanya, China. For the first time, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) organized the forum along with the Beijing Club for International Dialogue, the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies, and ...
... conventional weapons, intermediate-range forward-deployed land- and sea-based weapons, as well as command-control systems, especially in space. All U.S. strategic weapons and a significant portion of intermediate-range systems can be retargeted from China to Russia and vice versa. At the same time, the “China factor” is already being leveraged—and will continue to be—to justify a significant expansion of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the abandonment of parity with Russia.
Of course, not all these initiatives ...
... of comparable strength
The very concept of a “security umbrella” is absurd when it comes to a physical threat from an enemy of comparable strength. Since we are far from thinking that a threat to Europe could come from North African countries, China, or the Middle East, the only such enemy is Russia. However, it is linked to the United States by a relationship of strategic deterrence, based on the direct and immediate threat of causing unacceptable damage to each other’s territory and population. Any state, especially a strong and powerful ...
... source of clean energy.
Licensing reactor designs can be an important issue. Developing countries generally lack the necessary expertise to do this, so they have to rely on licensing from nations such as the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Russia and China.
One of the key problems faced by countries of the Global South when planning NPP construction is a lack of funding due to limited state budgets or private resources. Under these circumstances, they are compelled to seek external financing, but ...
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #94 / 2024
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report ...
