Report #83 / 2022
Report #83 / 2022
World order structural transformations are going hand-in-hand with new global power shifts where the United States and China will be vying for dominance. However mutually beneficial the Sino-American relations have been since the 1970s, recent years have borne witnessed to soaring uncertainty and confrontation between the U.S. and China. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current U.S. foreign policy strategy towards China, focusing on the most...
On August 29, 2020, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke at the remote public workshop on Russia's role in the Asia-Pacific
On August 29, 2020, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, spoke at the remote public workshop on Russia's role in the Asia-Pacific.
The workshop was organized by the Manila International Development and Security Cooperation research center. The discussion focused on the issues of Russia-China relations, Russia’s policy in Southeast Asia, Russia's position on the...
... IMEMO RAS, Russian State University for the Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) and RAS Institute of Oriental Studies. The discussion touched upon topical issues such as the WTO crisis, Russia's role in Asia Pacific, and the possibility of creating a free trade zone between Japan, South Korea, and China.
Recent 2 years there were some rumors in world media and blogosphere that North Korean leadership had been conducting remarkable economic reforms. However this hardly is true – perhaps we can say only Labour Party elite recognizes crisis of command administrative system and tries to enhance export production as well as ease burden of obligatory labour.
North Korean regime doesn’t care much on economic development mostly due to ideological limitations. Acting economy pattern cannot improve...
Interview with Natalya Stapran, Alexander Gabuyev, Sergey Luzyanin and Won Dong Cho
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal was sealed on 5 October 2015. Moscow’s stance on the TPP has not been defined yet.
The Russian International Affairs Council has asked
Natalya Stapran
, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;
Alexander Gabuyev
, head of the “Russia in...
... most popular export product is 3rd generation light water reactor. The gross sum of contracts in 2014 exceeded 100 billion USD and demand tends to grow up as there is an evident need for reliable source of alternative energy among developing countries. Asia Pacific or even broader Indo-Pacific reckon on rising economies as the main source of sustainable growth.
Rosatom claims the integrated services as the main competitive advantage. It includes building plant and grids, training personnel, regular ...
The latest edition of the annual IISS
Shangri-La Dialogue
conference that took place in Singapore on May 29–31, 2015, showed that the problem of the South China Sea, a little-known, distant and exotic land to Russians, is coming to the fore in both regional and world politics. As a matter of fact, the South China Sea is becoming one of the most important points of tension in the world, perhaps on a level comparable to that of the Persian Gulf.
The situation in the region has featured predominantly...
On May 29, 2015, RIAC and the RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies held an
International Conference entitled “Russia and China: a New Partnership in a Changing World.”
The future of Russian-Chinese relations was at the heart of plenary sessions, expert debates and general discussions by participants.
Vladimir Portyakov
, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies,
Alexei Voskresensky
, Dean of the School of Political Science at MGIMO-University,
Sergei Kulik
, Director...
... economic development in Siberia and the Soviet Far East, and calling for more exports—the economic motor that had driven development in other East Asian countries. But increased trade was only possible if the Soviet Union played an active role in the Asia Pacific region. Gorbachev argued that Soviet citizens needed to take Asia more seriously. The reasons were geography and economics. “Many major states of the world,” Gorbachev argued, “including the United States, India, China, ...
Seen at least from the perspective of East Asia, the Russian Far East (RFE) is very much the odd man out when it comes to the regional economic miracle of the last generation. There are multiple reasons for the RFE having largely missed this boat, but it cannot be put down merely to the legacy of Socialism, for Heilongjiang across the border has managed to enrich itself greatly. Deficiencies in institutions — such as the rule of law — are hindrances, but again, China has managed.
Nor...
