... often attributed to Lenin [
1
], describing geopolitical tensions of the international system, sentiments that remain true today: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Henry Kissinger's secret visit
to China in the early 1970s was such a week when the seeds of the new world order were established, followed by China’s opening up to the world and massive economic, military and societal changes that occurred outside the memory of human beings. This change ...
RIAC Report #98
RIAC Report #98 / 2024
The following report provides a detailed analysis of how the People’s Republic of China is working to strengthen its position in the global financial system by internationalizing its currency. The authors thoroughly examine the factors and strategic objectives of de-dollarization as part of the yuan internationalization process. The ...
... Svetlana Gavrilova, RIAC Director of Programs, moderated the session.
During the first session, the presentation of the RIAC report, “Extra-Regional actors in the Middle East”, was held. The experts discussed regional strategies of Russia, USA, EU, China and India. Speakers in this session were the report authors: Alexander Aksenenok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-President; Alexander Lomanov, Acting Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov ...
Russia and China have provided an example of how it is possible, while remaining committed to international institutions and law, to support the most important trends in the development of international politics
Russia and China have provided an example of how ...
... technologies (digital infrastructure, semiconductors, AI, green economy) and diversification of supply chains to limit the current overwhelming EU dependence on US trading partners.
To achieve both goals, the EU would need stronger economic ties with China. The convergence of interests between the two major economic powerhouses on the opposite sides of the vast Eurasian landmass is evident. In many ways, Brussels and Beijing face similar challenges coming from Washington. Both the EU and China have ...
... preceded by years of mutual accusations, fuelled by new technological realities, the collapse of other arms control mechanisms (including the ABM Treaty), suspicions of new system developments, and the presence of such systems in third countries, notably China. During Trump’s first term, the extension of New START was nearly derailed, only to be salvaged under the Biden administration. In 2023, amid the SMO, Russia suspended its participation in New START.
The Stabilizing “Basic Principles”: Moscow ...
In Paris the European Union managed to find a mutually acceptable compromise with the Global South, India turned out to be able to overcome its frictions with China, and only the US and the UK preferred to challenge the emerging global AI consensus
Conventional wisdom suggests that these days the only really big fight around AI takes place between the US and China and the rest of us are sort of idle observers ...
China seeks to give more than it takes
Modern Southeast Asia has moved beyond the state of a “boiling cauldron”
described
by American scholar Robert Kaplan, but it has not yet evolved into a clearly defined structure. Moreover, the nature of regional ...
Policies like “small yard, high fence” cannot hinder China's pace of innovation and development, nor are closed and exclusionary measures a sustainable solution
The Two Sessions refer to the annual sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, and the National Committee of ...
On February 28 – March 1, 2025 the 3rd International Conference “China-Russia Sanya Dialogue” was held in Sanya, China. For the first time, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) organized the forum along with the Beijing Club for International Dialogue, the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies,...
