... Myanmar civil war and the multilateral dispute in the South China Sea. Malaysia, which chairs the association in 2025, is calling for a balance of interests and responsible behavior. Kuala Lumpur is
focused
on confidence-building measures and preventive diplomacy in relations with China to reduce the risk of escalation, including the finalization of provisions of the Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea. Notably, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is
not yet inclined
to resume full cooperation with the U.S. due to American ...
... down cooperation or makes it impossible even in limited, but at the same time inclusive formats that were observed in the 1990s and 2000s.
Russia is trying to consolidate the global majority and build relations with the opponents of the United States. China creates its own platform for international relations in the economic and financial spheres, although it has so far avoided rigid military alliances. Diplomacy is again built around individual centers of power, moving away from multilateralism to the tasks of the balance of power.
Despite the crisis of multilateral diplomacy, preserving its supporting structures seems necessary. The UN Security Council ...
... is a long way off. Moscow and Beijing are not striving for it. But their interaction is now closer, and the United States will no longer be able to use Russia to balance China.
Andrey Kortunov:
‘Senior-Junior Partnership’ Claim Distorts Russia-China Relations
Chinese diplomacy has been building an extremely cautious foreign policy since the late 1970s. Beijing has most consistently adhered to the principle of minimizing adversaries and maximizing friends. In many ways, China has achieved its goal, having managed to ...
... while the US—by containing Iran militarily—has failed to deliver on its promise of regional security.
Yuliya Alekseeva:
China in the Mashriq: New Best Friend
China’s success as a mediator in the internal reconciliation of Palestine suggests that China’s proactive diplomacy in the region is not a one-off move: China is more than willing to contribute to regional stability and peace. As China’s role is welcomed by regional actors, it will continue to go grow, as will the role of the Global South. In turn, China’s ...
... characterized by extreme bias and dogmatism, narrowing the space for possible compromise.
Apparently, this position is unanimously supported by Western allies and, moreover, was most likely formulated with their direct assistance. Thus, the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrel openly
stated
that Zelensky’s plan is the only option discussed in the international arena. There are other plans – from China, Brazil, African countries – but all of them have been pushed back. None of them have been discussed [seriously] on a global scale, except for Zelensky’s plan.
There is some consensus among Western nations on the most desirable resolution of ...
China has effectively coped with its role of facilitator, but now the country will have to enforce the agreements reached
In March 2023, seven years after diplomatic relations were severed, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the Islamic Republic ...
... (or a new US President Trump in 2024), we are actually curious whether the Atlantic alliance will survive much longer.
Debate is good. We see different things. Dr. Andrey Kortunov started a post-24-February debate with a very eloquent
piece
“End of Diplomacy? Seven Glimpses of the New Normal”. I glimpse a more positive new normal for Russia and should therefore like to address the seven glimpses from another angle.
1. Russia has only temporarily captured China’s seemingly entrenched role as a major U.S. (not international) villain. Restraining China’s foreign policy ambitions is not off the agenda for Washington, but America’s European partners were always more moderate. Though Beijing has adopted ...
... only has the common misfortune fail to rally the post-COVID world under a single banner but has, on the contrary, served to fragment it further: the world is now highly polarized and extremely heterogeneous.
Features of China’s post-COVID economic diplomacy
Given China’s much more successful recovery after the pandemic, new avenues lie before it. For instance, China became the EU’s biggest economic partner last year, overtaking the U.S. The number of freight trains travelling between the EU and China
topped
...
... version of “dual containment” appears to be the most likely approach of this Administration towards Beijing and Moscow, with China being treated more as a peer competitor and Russia as a global rogue state. To cut the costs of dual containment, Biden ... .... It will also try to keep Eurasia divided by forging stronger ties to Chines adversaries in Asia—above all, to India.
12. Diplomacy
Biden may decide to stop the ongoing “diplomatic war” with Russia—he arguably values professional diplomacy much ...
... range from legal to condemned by the United Nations and the international community, the United States’ current approach to diplomacy and foreign policy decision-making serves to increase tensions amongst itself and other rising powers outside of NATO ... ... Currently, the United States maintains a strict hierarchy of power within the international community; however, both Russia and China have made formidable advancements in the projections of their respective power and influence over world affairs. In order ...
