... what might the consequences for Russia be?
Objective and Subjective Problems of Global Economy
Ivan Timofeev:
A New Anarchy? Scenarios for World Order Dynamics
The three main global economic powerhouses – the United States, the European Union and China – are all currently facing serious (albeit different) problems.
At first glance, it would appear that the U.S. economy is in excellent shape: GDP has been growing faster than the average for developed countries over the past several years, unemployment ...
... forces, experts, civil society activists, members of the private sector. In addition to respondents from the Middle East and North Africa and the corresponding foreign diasporas, the authors sought to include the views of experts from Europe, Russia, China, and the US.
The sociological survey included expert polls, in-depth face-to-face interviews, focus group discussions, brainstorming sessions, and the Delphi survey to convey the outcomes. The authors state that they also used the materials of fifty-eight ...
... Russian think tanks’ activities at RANEPA.
RIAC Deputy Director of Programs Elena Karpinskaya outlined the Council’s history, structure and activities. Program Manager Ksenia Kuzmina informed the Chinese experts of RIAC’s projects on Russia – China relations.
Li Te, Director of the Service Center for International Academic and Cultural Communication, headed the delegation of 24 scientists from various CASS institutes.
RIAC Program Coordinator Alevtina Larionova and Program Assitant Daria Terkina ...
... without account for high costs, and lack of innovative ideas
Today, South Korea is the leading manufacturer of memory microchips. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix hold
two-thirds
of the global market. Additionally, both the United States’ Apple and China’s Huawei depend on the products produced by South Korean companies. Integrated circuit units account for
17 percent
of South Korea’s exports (the entire microelectronics sector accounts for
nearly a quarter of its exports
), compared to
less ...
...
The 5th annual report by RIAC, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies and the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University presents the сommon views of leading Russian and Chinese international affairs experts on the development of Russia–China cooperation in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.
The authors analyze the dynamics of Russia–China interaction on the most pressing matters of international and regional agendas against the backdrop of increasing external pressure. They assess ...
... Italy and foreign countries. The main topics of the discussion were pending issues in the “USA - European Union - Russia” triangle, the future of international conflicts, taking into account the ongoing global technological revolution, the factor of China in relations between the West and Russia.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics, spoke at the forum. The forum ...
... status was essential.
This double failure forced Putin into a sharp turn in the second half of the 2010s. From the outside, this looked like a turn from a Greater Europe toward a Greater Eurasia, which many took for a pivot to the East, specifically to China.
In fact, this was a pivot by Russia toward itself, in search of a balancing point in a quickly changing global environment. Russia’s current self-determination is an affirmation of itself as a major independent power in the north of the Eurasian ...
China has repeatedly expressed its interest in studying Russia’s experience of setting up its own missile warning system. And it would seem that Moscow has decided to meet these requests
RIAC expert
Dmitry Stefanovich
comments on President Vladimir ...
... Arabia’s oil production, if only for a time, will primarily hit Asian countries, which account for about 80 percent of
Saudi Aramco
’s exports. These countries can make up for the shortage in three ways. First, they can use their own strategic reserves (China’s reserves alone are
estimated
at about 700 million barrels, however, there is no historic precedent for such steps); second, they can switch to other oil grades, that is, in the absence of
Arab Light
and
Arab Super Light
they can import heavier/lighter ...
Since neither Russia nor China can countervail the US-led Western alliance on its own, a closer equation is needed between the two
Each of us has his own definition of “geo-history”, and mine is the interface of the “geopolitical” and the “world-historical.”
We ...