... Co-Conveners of the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG)
The Co-Conveners of the Euro-Atlantic Security Leadership Group (EASLG) released the following
statement
:
“We welcome the leadership shown by the leaders of The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America in their January 3, 2022 Joint Statement on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races.
We are encouraged ...
... other options available at the moment. However, the postponement raises several questions. Several months later, on September 16, the Czech parliament approved a law for the transition to low-emission energy that excluded countries such as Russia and China from being able to bid for the construction of a new nuclear power plant. Both decisions are characterized by a lack of decisiveness and by ambivalence.
Historically, Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic have both developed a pro-nuclear ...
... still the largest instigator of sanctions, and the restrictive measures taken by the Americans are the most dangerous for business. The change of administration in the United States has resulted in adjustments to the policy of sanctions against Russia, China and Iran. The EU’s toolkit of restrictive measures has been gradually developing, although there have been no significant breakthroughs. Belarus can be directly called the “target country” of the year. The level of sanctions levied against ...
... through economic development is challenged by other development approaches. Nowadays, there are so-called “autocratic” regimes that have great conditions for sustainable economic development and growth of power in the world order. Examples include China or Singapore. Conceptually, we cannot extrapolate these cases by a special affiliation to “Asia”. They are contemporary testimonies that nuance modern theories of economic development through democratisation, which should then promote human ...
... Academy of Sciences (CASS) held a closing event of 2021 — the final seminar of the joint series, dedicated to most relevant issues on the bilateral agenda. This time the round table “The role of cooperation on scientific publications in Russia — China academic cooperation” focused on opportunities and obstacles for scientific cooperation between the two countries.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, Sun Zhuangzhi, Director of the CASS Institute for Russian, Eastern European and Central ...
... international problems rather than on foreign adversaries
Last week, CNBC published an op-ed piece by Frederick Kempe, a prominent US analyst and journalist. The author argues that in 2022 the US will have to focus on confronting the challenges coming from China, Russia and Iran. He suggests that these three nations will likely try to make use of the perceived US foreign policy weakness, which the recent American withdrawal from Afghanistan demonstrated in the most explicit way. Frederick Kempe also suggests ...
... in accordance with an algorithm written in plain English.
Super-deep learning
. The race for the “depth” of neural models, while has long been dominated by the American giants Google, Microsoft (
jointly with OpenAI
) and Amazon, is now joined by China’s tech giants Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba. In November 2021, Alibaba created the
M6 multimodal network
that boasts a record number of parameters or connections (10 trillion in total)—this is a mere one tenth behind
the number of synapses in ...
The importance of the strategic partnership with China and sought to set the record straight on a number of other geopolitical issues plaguing ties between Moscow and Washington
In a comprehensive interview with
Newsweek
, Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov laid out his country's ...
... economic integration alliances to be finally launched among the BRICS countries after an extended period of limited economic advances in the sphere of common economic integration, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Yaroslav Lissovolik.
The coming of China’s chairmanship in the BRICS grouping in 2022 is likely to provide a fresh impulse to the BRICS+ initiative that was launched during the Xiamen summit in 2017. A lot has changed in the course of this 5-year period and, if anything, these developments ...
... Western leaders demonstrated a spectacular lack of vision and a deficit of common sense
The US recently confirmed that it would not send any official or diplomatic representatives to the Winter Olympic Games and Paralympics in February 2022 due to China's alleged "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses." Make no mistake—this tough language does not imply a total boycott of the Games—US athletes are not banned from competing for Olympic ...
