... and a multilateral forum for mapping out the contours of a polycentric world order.
Zhao Huasheng:
Three Core Concepts of Sino-Russian International Cooperation
The SCO’s first function was to settle border disputes among five countries: Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. This format was first established at the 1996 summit in Shanghai and was institutionalized in 2001 with Uzbekistan’s accession, turning the Shanghai Five into the Shanghai Six. By the early 2010s, all territorial ...
... values, capitalist democracy and global cooperation. However, behind this persuasive rhetoric is a system which has been viewed by many non-western countries as a geopolitical instrument to advance US interest and stifle other rising powers, especially China, in the recent times. As global geopolitics enfolds, this system is under increasing pressure with the global landscape rapidly changing; however, current US rhetoric remains stuck in the past. In actuality, this US-led liberal order is undergoing ...
... is possible without a population trained to optimize productivity, performance, and profitability. This underscores the integral role each individual plays in their own mental power in the process of economic growth.
Forget MBAs: Study How Communist China is Succeeding
The USA created the first, largest, and most successful agro-industrial nation long before economic theories became popular. Today, communist China is the world's largest producer of almost everything and the largest entrepreneurial ...
... summit shows how the world is shifting away from the West
Historical anniversaries often provide the backdrop for diplomacy to become spectacle. This week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin was deliberately staged ahead of China’s grand parade marking 80 years since the end of World War II. Beijing, the host, made sure the symbolism landed. The timing also underscored the contrast with Washington: Donald Trump, who has long admired military parades, is already planning ...
... had, for over a century, the world's most skilled, qualified, and globally respected experts driving the period's growth. What happened? Only our profound discovery of key factors will correct such gaps. Not by random sleepless TikTok chats.
Today, China boasts the largest and most highly skilled workforce in the world, surpassing the combined workforce of all Western economies. How and why have they accomplished this, not as some secret economic theorem, but as living examples of national mobilization ...
... already represent a break in the pattern, given what has transpired over the last three and a half years. What will characterise the next transition in international relations, and what trump cards do its key participants hold?
Ivan Timofeev:
Russia and China in the Era of Trade Wars and Sanctions
The Putin-Trump summit drew a line under the reality that emerged after the start of Russia’s special military operation in February 2022. It had a number of features. First, a high level of consolidation ...
Thorough, frank discussion of issues expected at summit, says ambassador
Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov has reaffirmed Russia's readiness to work with China to strengthen the multifaceted potential and global stature of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ahead of the SCO Summit, which will be held in Tianjin on Sunday and Monday.
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On August 25, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Beijing Club for International Dialogue organized a roundtable “China-Russia Relations: Arctic Dialogue”
On August 25, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Beijing Club for International Dialogue organized a roundtable “China-Russia Relations: Arctic Dialogue”.
During the event, Russian ...
... priority for Rosatom over the next five to 10 years, given the global demand for decentralized and low-carbon power sources?
Alexandra Perminova:
The Role of the SCO in Ensuring Water and Energy Security in Central Asia: Opportunities for Russia – China Cooperation
Rosatom sees SMR exports as a strategic direction for the next decade and a central pillar of its global low-carbon agenda. Why? Because there is vast market potential as demand for decentralized, reliable and low-carbon energy sources ...
... foreign policy based on the American presence.
This means that the security situation in Eurasia is largely influenced by forces that are interested in it in the context of their diplomatic interactions, both with the largest Eurasian states – Russia, China and India, and with smaller powers like Iran, Saudi Arabia or Pakistan. For example, the efforts of Israel and the US behind it to further weaken Iran really do meet the interests of these countries: for the former, it is a matter of survival, and ...
