... Becoming an anti-US Group
In the recent decades, the West (defined in this study as the United States, Britain and the EU) has lost its uncontested dominance on the global arena in terms of economy and geopolitics, as the new economic powerhouses such as China have emerged and the globe has entered the era of the multipolar world order. However, there is a certain field in which the West still remains a singular hegemon: a field which has, as surprising as it may sound to some, significant importance ...
... Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IFES RAS) discussed bilateral cooperation in late 2020 – early 2021.
The meeting was held via videoconference. RIAC and IFES RAS traditionally work together to produce the annual report “Russia-China Dialogue” since 2015.
... Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) discussed cooperation plans for 2021.
Collaboration between the two think tanks is based on the Memorandum of Cooperation, signed in 2016 within the framework of the official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China in the presence of the heads of the two states.
Annual international conference “Russia and China: Cooperation in the New Era” is the flagship project for RIAC and CASS. In 2020, the Sixth Conference was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 ...
... Kortunov and Professor of the Fundan University Zhao Huasheng held a working meeting by videoconference to discuss joint projects, scheduled for late 2020 – early 2021.
Traditionally, bilateral cooperation focuses on producing the annual report «Russia-China dialogue» together with the RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies. The first report was published in 2015.
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However, what I found shocking in this process is the long-standing cooperative efforts and the assumption of “Arctic exceptionalism,” both of which are becoming more and more blurred. This leads back to the United States finding the engagement of China, a non-Arctic state, a threat to Arctic cooperation. During the Rovaniemi ministerial meeting, the U.S. pointed out its concern regarding China's increasing engagement in the region, making the Arctic an arena of global power politics and competition....
The once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe of COVID-19 has shown that the trend of bipolarization between China and the U.S. is likely to continue and deepen in the post-pandemic period
For most of the time after the end of the cold war, the contradiction between a unipolar and multipolar world was the main focus of the world structure. But now this state ...
The most important task for the diplomacy of Washington and Beijing will be the fight for major players
The US-China split is evolving into a long-term rivalry. It is unlikely to be affected by the US elections or the mitigation of certain current irritants like the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that the thirty-year era of broad manoeuvre in international relations,...
The USMC should become a streamlined tool for containing China's growing power
The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has launched a radical reform that fully and completely reflects the changes in U.S. geopolitical priorities. The Marines are busy getting rid of all their tanks, planning to stock up on medium-range ...
... conventional weapons and their components to Tehran. The document allows the United States to impose sanctions on any state involved in the arms trade with Iran. The US approach is not shared by other participants in the JCPOA, in particular, Russia and China, which regard the Iranian arms market as rather promising.
Dmitriy Kiku, Ivan Timofeev:
US Left Isolated, Iran Nuclear Deal Under Threat: What Will Crisis Over Iran in UN Security Council Lead to?
The expiration of a five-year embargo on the supply ...
What is the current state of Russia’s relations with China and the Indo-Pacific? And what are the prospects for Russia as an Indo-Pacific power?
What is the current state of Russia’s relations with China and the Indo-Pacific? And what are the prospects for Russia as an Indo-Pacific power? For a perspective ...
