... of comparable strength
The very concept of a “security umbrella” is absurd when it comes to a physical threat from an enemy of comparable strength. Since we are far from thinking that a threat to Europe could come from North African countries, China, or the Middle East, the only such enemy is Russia. However, it is linked to the United States by a relationship of strategic deterrence, based on the direct and immediate threat of causing unacceptable damage to each other’s territory and population....
... primarily in the Global South.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Future Belongs to Inclusive Groups Like BRICS
In this article, the conventional concept of the Global South
refers
to countries in Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia (including China and India, but excluding the post-Soviet states and OECD nations). From an energy perspective, the countries in this group are primarily interested in ensuring a stable energy supply as well as energy security and, as a consequence, achieving high ...
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #94 / 2024
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International ...
... been a clear achievement. They reflect a shared commitment to security and stability through collaboration with neighbors.
Unlike other parts of the world, Greater Eurasia lacks clear dividing lines between economic or military-political blocs. The China and Russia-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has emerged as a particularly ambitious and inclusive platform. It offers a foundation for building a relatively equitable regional order in the long term.
The role of competition
However, the ...
... inevitably bore the imprint of the rivalry between these two powers. In addition, other centres of power, despite having their own voice, still could not act as alternative and independent centres of power equal to the superpowers. To a certain extent, China could afford such a role. However, it was also focused on the tasks of modernisation, concentrating its foreign policy on its own key regional problems.
After the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s, a window of opportunity opened for multilateral ...
On December, 3, 2024, RIAC hosted a roundtable titled US-China Competition: Opportunities for Russia
On December, 3, 2024, RIAC hosted a roundtable titled US-China Competition: Opportunities for Russia. The discussion featured the presentation of an eponymous book produced by the authors of the Center for ...
... (Memel) River with a view of Kaliningrad oblast/Königsberg, summer 2023
West
There’s also a lot of excitement on the “Western front.” With Donald Trump as president of the US, the pressure on the EU will grow. The trade war between the US and China will intensify and, in keeping with the dictum “Make America great again,” not only will the conversation’s tone become harsher, we will see whether the US becomes part of a multi-polar or multi-regional world, or whether a “bloc mentality” ...
... force – a state or a union of states, whose goal is to destroy their political systems or physically absorb them.
There can be no unifying role for one leader here either. Due to its size, Greater Eurasia includes such states as Russia, India and China, and none of them will ever be able to agree on who else will play the role of regional leader. Even at the sub-regional level in Eurasia, we see that the countries of its geographic core – Central Asia – are faced with the problem of competition ...
... sanctions—why do countries that initiate sanctions reduce them? How long-term and sustainable is such a process? The lack of attention to such issues is due to justified scepticism—too often sanctions drag on for years or decades. This makes the experience of China, which managed to lift most US sanctions, even more interesting.
Ivan Timofeev:
Trump or Harris: Does it Matter for China?
The process has dragged on for more than a quarter of a century, and in recent years, Washington has once again increased ...
... corporations influence globally does not deviate from the context of the strategic plans adopted by the Chinese state to secure its vital economic and political sphere. It is clear that the investment strategies of Chinese companies are based on making China a global economic, political and military power.
Therefore, it can be said that these investment policies inevitably reflect China’s vision of how to achieve long-term political and economic goals. On this basis, it seems that the influence of ...
