... elites from the United States, Western Europe, he became (and still is) one of the most informed political scientists in Russia. In an interview to
BUSINESS Online
, he told us whether nuclear war is possible, whether we will become a satellite of China, and why some in the Russian government are against designing a new ideology.
— The special military operation [in Ukraine] has been going on for more than a year. During this period, in your opinion, have any dramatic changes occurred in Russia ...
... enshrined in law, their lifting will be much more difficult. Their use as a bargaining tool will depreciate. However, in Moscow, apparently, they do not believe in the prospect of any agreements anyway, at least in the near future.
The situation with China is different. Between January 2019 and April 2023, there have been more legislative initiatives on sanctions against China than against Russia—103 versus 99 (again, only those bills that propose specific restrictive measures are counted). Four ...
Five questions regarding China-Russia relations and Chinese policy through the prism of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
One unexpected outcome of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that China-Russia relations have taken center stage in global affairs. Even though China is not a party ...
... President Vladimir Putin’s Munich Speech of 2007 was a kind of declaration of Russia’s geopolitical independence and a public challenge to US hegemony. This challenge from Russia was geopolitical, normative and partly military. At the same time, China’s rapid economic and technological growth and Beijing’s refusal to accept the American offer to become a junior partner of the United States put American hegemony in front of economic challenges. Since the mid-1990s, two major powers, namely Russia and China, have regularly declared multipolarity as the desired ...
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
Working Paper No. 74 / 2023
The working paper seeks to analyze constitutive voting patterns of Sub-Saharan states of Africa at the UN General Assembly. The methodology proposed in this paper offers an opportunity to explore this issue topic-wise as well as in a broader sense. The paper considers a number of indicators that help assess the involvement of the continent’s different countries in the voting processes, builds on the various types of strategic behavior in the...
... are only three states in the world that are of fundamental importance for international politics, it is them that we compare in relation to the phenomenon of allied relations. The United States, of course, is far ahead of its opponents — Russia and China. Over the past decades, America has been able to establish formal allied relations with more than ¼ of the world’s countries. This system of alliances allows the United States to confidently control the situation on its periphery and in Europe,...
... Partnership of Coordination for the New Era, which publicly mentioned the U.S. seven times. For example, the two sides pointed out that the U.S., was clinging to the Cold War mentality, and destabilizing the world for its unilateral gain. How do we make of China and Russia's frequent mention of the U.S.?
Sergey Sanakoev:
Russia and China have no illusion about what is happening right now in the world. We declared that after the World War II, only the United States of America opened more than 70 military ...
Russia and China fully understand they must stick together to fend off Washington, because if one falls the other is on its own
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow is not just symbolic as his first foreign excursion after being re-elected to an unprecedented ...
... interest. When Global Times reporter Bai Yunyi (GT) traveled to Moscow this week to cover Xi's visit, she interviewed Andrey Kortunov (Kortunov), academic director of the Russian International Affairs Council, who shared his views on issues surrounding China-Russia relations, the Ukraine crisis, and challenges that the world is facing today.
GT: What do you expect from the Chinese President's visit to Russia? How will this visit affect China-Russia relations?
Kortunov:
This trip will be very important ...
... energy markets and is a major exporter of food and a number of other goods that benefit from stable demand. Behind Russia is China, a fellow permanent member of the UN Security Council, which has solid global influence.
In other words, we are dealing ... ... West is significant. We absolutely do not know how the countries of the World Majority would behave in conditions where the USA and Europe launched an offensive against a weaker adversary: for example, against Iran or another country of a comparable ...
