Interview with Vladimir Korovkin, Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Which country sets the rules and standards for the digital economy today? Should Russia gear its technological development towards China? Why is it important for Russia to radically revise its official approach in this area? These were just some of the interesting topics we touched upon in our interview with Head of Digital and Innovations Research at Moscow School of Management ...
Increased Chinese influence on Egypt enhances China's role in the Mediterranean region
On May 30, 1956, during the visit of the head of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) State Council Zhou Enlai to Egypt, the Arab Republic announced the diplomatic recognition of the Chinese сommunist government ...
... impact on the evolving global governance construct of the world economy the BRICS need to form an effective platform for extending their economic cooperation to the Global South. Such a platform may be based on the BRICS-plus initiative launched by China, with the aggregation of regional integration blocks from the developing world serving as the core of such a platform.
Perhaps the most effective way in which the BRICS could prove to be instrumental in rendering the construct of the world economy ...
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While it may be a little early to talk about the emergence of a bipolar era in the tech world, the question of what policy Russia should follow against the backdrop of the confrontation between the two undisputed tech leaders (the United States and China) is more pressing than ever.
Vassily Kashin
of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics shared his thoughts on the matter with us.
How does today’s ...
China’s two-arm approach of strategically opening and closing will likely continue
China’s major international trade and investment policy ‘
International Capacity Cooperation
’
(ICC) is getting a rebrand. ICC emerged as the dominant trade policy ...
... the persistent anti-Russian agenda of the U.S. media. Additionally, Trump appears to sincerely believe that if he manages to stay in the White House for another term, he will be able to conclude a wonderful “big deal” that would ideally include China as well. Unfortunately, it is difficult to share his optimism, since even the traditional bilateral START-IV will be difficult to negotiate from scratch.
Compared to 2010, when New START was signed, an entire range of points became more complicated:
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For the United States, for the European Union, for Russia, for China and for many other leading players in world politics, the great turning point, most likely, will not be in 2020, but in 2024
US history knows just a few examples of how an incumbent president struggling for re-election is defeated by an opposition ...
... main achievements here, he named the replacement of NAFTA with the new USMCA agreement (in fact, the conditions do not differ much, but for Trump the main thing is to declare a “grand victory”), as well as economic pressure and a trade war with China, which allowed a deal with it on more favourable terms for the United States. This deal is another of Trump’s aces in the upcoming election game. Beijing really made significant concessions, hoping to “wait out” the current Trump presidency,...
The risk of sanctions will persist regardless of success in resolving the trade war
The signing of the first package of documents within the framework of a trade agreement between China and the United States was a serious step towards a ceasefire in the trade war between the two economic giants. Beijing accepted an obligation regarding US exports for the next two years, and Washington said it would not impose new duties. Of course,...
... SWIFT system, only a few scholars, such as V. Katasonov, have
expressed
views on this topic in the form of online comments, and academic articles that provide a systematic analysis are few.
At present, most of the academic articles on SWIFT systems in China introduce the SWIFT system from a technical perspective of applied finance.
The Development and Application of the SWIFT in China [
3
] and An Analysis of the Characteristics of SWIFT Correspondence in Banks
[
4
] are among them. And fewer articles ...
