On November 27, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a meeting with the delegation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), headed by Professor Sun Li, Deputy Director of CASS Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies (IEERCAS). The event was held as preparation for the Fifth International Conference "Russia and China", which is scheduled for May 2019.
On November 27, 2018, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) held a meeting with the delegation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), headed by Professor Sun Li, Deputy Director of CASS Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies (IEERCAS). The event was held as preparation for the Fifth International Conference "Russia and China", which is scheduled for May 2019.
The participants of the meeting included Andrey Kortunov, RIAc Director General; Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director of Programs; Alexander Lomanov, Chief Researcher at RAS Center for Asia-Pacific Studies; Andrey Karneev, Associate Director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries MSU; Yuriy Kulintsev, Associate Researcher at Center for the Studies of the Northeast Asia Strategic Issues and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at IFES RAS; Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Coordinator; and Alevtina Larionova, RIAC Program Assistant. Chinese side was represented by Guo Xiaoqiong, Senior Research Fellow IEERCAS; Professor Ouyang Xiangying, Head of Department of World Economics and Politics at CASS; Professor Xu Poling, Head of Russian Economy Department IEERCAS; Xue Fuqi, Head of Strategic Studies Department at IEERCAS; and Cheng Yijun, Professor and Economist.
Panellists noted the growing international tensions associated with the U.S. leading trade war against China and the growing China-U.S. contradictions, being not only economic, but also geopolitical. In such conditions, Russia and China face the need to find new points of contact, including the area of regional cooperation and bilateral trade development.
