Region: East Asia and the Asia-Pacific

The US, Chinese and Russian strategies towards Taiwan, as well as towards partially and unrecognized states in Europe, are global and interconnected

The current worldwide economic decline might question the positions of the country

On May 19, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Korean Foundation held a round table to discuss the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the relations between the…

Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, and Zhang Hanhui, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Russia, delivered welcoming remarks

To avoid becoming part of a Sino-centric power bloc and maintain international equilibrium, which is critically important to Russia’s status and self-image, Moscow must reduce its dependence on China…

China today presents a legitimate new alternative, and thus a threat, to the Western system

China has yet to match its powerful economic status with a benevolent state image internationally

When superpowers are not surrounding themselves with ideological blocs, bipolarity is nothing but two states getting into a bickering match, albeit with certain global attributes  

The Monkey King cannot sit it out atop the mountain

It is difficult to talk about any specific guilt of the Chinese leadership for a pandemic in this light. Exactly the same blunder fluctuations with the introduction of draconian anti-epidemic…

On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global Counter Terrorism Council

The speed of the confrontation is accelerating, and it will be extremely difficult to soften its inertia