Ability of the two countries to reach an amicable solution to the border dispute
The installation of a new government in New Delhi in May 2014 inevitably set off speculations about how this event would impact India-China relations. The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the BRICS summit at Fortaleza in July 2014 was marked by a positive atmosphere and raised expectations of a breakthrough in bilateral ...
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Times of India
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... number should be 2 million. That figure is more than the 1.4 million Emirati citizens who occupy the United Arab Emirates.
India, with the largest Islamic population among the BRICS, shares porous borders with Islamic Pakistan (178 million) and Bangladesh ... ... support Saudi position on Syria. Do Russia and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia still do business? Yes.
A similar situation exists in China, where the government of Xi Jinping continues the policy of selling weapons and some dual use technology to Iran, and conventional ...
On June 13-15, 2014, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev took part in the first symposium under the project "New Responses to Global Challenges in Finance, Energy Security and Climate Change: Cooperation between the U.S., Russia, China and India" held in Hong Kong.
The participating representatives of think tanks from the four countries discussed the global environment in 2014 and the changes underway in international economic relations through the prism of probable development patterns ...
... of regional and short-haul jets since the late 1980s, increasing its market share in the segment of commercial aviation
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Table 1.
Added value and share of employment in the aviation industry of the BRICS countries, 1980-2010, %
Brazil
Russia
India
China
South Africa
1980
2010
1980
2010
1980
2010
1980
2010
1980
2010
Added value in the sector
7,5
11,3
10,2
7,0
4,8
6,4
2,6
8,2
11,5
9,5
Share of employment in the sector
3,5
4,7
11,2
11,1
1,4
2,5
3,3
4,2
7,1
10,9
Source: UNIDOINDSTAT, 2012.
Although ...
... wit that outside the “developed western markets” developing economies in general overwhelmingly trust the BRICS to the extent (on the average of a 60 percent approval rating) that they would invest in or buy a company in Brazil, Russia, India or China.
Another incongruous area that raises credibility questions is that the Barometer increased Argentina’s trust rating by a whopping 10%, one of this biggest gains posted in the study. Yet Argentina’s government has been called out twice ...
... according to legitimate aspirations of their peoples” and “…share the principle that the use of force should be avoided”.
During the March 17, 2011 vote on Resolution 1973, which opened the way for NATO to bomb Libya, Brazil, India, Russia and China abstained, while South Africa supported it.
The three initial summits centered on coordinating economic policies, whereas the fourth meeting, on March 28-29, 2012 in Delhi, was devoted to the theme "BRICS Partnership for Global Stability, ...
Regular symposium “Future of Global Governance: a View from the U.S.A., Russia, China and India” was held in Beijing under the auspices of the Carnegie Corporation of New York to gather experts on financial and economic risks, world policy and international relations.
Russia was represented by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev, as ...
... and maintain so powerful a navy. Other maritime powers have been deprived of these factors. Some countries, such as the UK, lack the political will to actively expand their fleet. Others, like Russia, lack the required resources. And others, such as China, India and Turkey, lack the requisite modern technology.
Photo: southcom.mil
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
Economic development, the spread of relatively cheap and simple naval technologies, as well as acute competition in the global shipbuilding market all ...
... on the Crimean Peninsula, now Ukraine, which seems to be in terminal decline. Due to the Ukrainian leaders’ vacillation on cooperation in the defense-sector, Russia, NITKA’s main user, has launched construction on its own complex, as have India and China, who also have Soviet-built aircraft carriers.
Inter-Slavic Dispute
NITKA was put into service in August 1982, when the facility’s ramp was first used to ski-jump a T-10K, the prototype for the SU27K carrier-based fighter, later mass produced ...
