... Brief #47 / 2023
The Middle East has been clearly showing signs that is it changing. It would not be an overstatement to say that a lot of what is happening now would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.
The greatest of these changes is the China-mediated rapprochement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given that these countries are regional “centers of power”, their new and improved relations may help reduce regional tensions in certain countries ...
The visit of the Brazilian President to China on April 14, 2023 sets new milestones in foreign policy and opens up new opportunities for strategic partnership between the two countries. The leaders of Brazil and China signed a series of agreements that will strengthen economic, trade and cultural ...
During the meeting with Council leadership, participants discussed the prospects for cooperation between CESC and RIAC and other Russian think-tanks and academic institutions, as well as Russia-China relations in the global context
On September 18, 2023, a delegation of China Economic and Social Council (CESC), headed by Zhang Qingli, Chairman of the CESC, Vice Chairman of the All-China Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ...
... - and the global South stands to benefit. Africa is the world’s youngest continent and its many nations are developing rapidly.
Investment that reinforces local agency and solidifies development gains is the missing piece of the puzzle. Russia and China have been delivering this independently of each other.
A Chinese rice expert instructs local farmers in a hybrid rice field in Kihanga, Bubanza Province, Burundi, on 29 October 2022 (XINHUA)
Recently, Russia and China promulgated strategic roadmaps ...
... that took place in Johannesburg on August 22-24, while Sochi hosted negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 4. On September 9-10, 2023, New Delhi hosted the 18
th
G20 Summit, and China will host the 3
rd
One Belt, One Road Forum in October 2023. All of these meetings have addressed or will address food security issues to a greater or lesser extent, and so it is safe to say that global food security currently plays a key role in ...
... world. Most of the projects that have been realized are in the field of energy and infrastructure. Most of the energy and transportation infrastructure have been built as part of project activities rather than as investment projects.
Ivan Timofeev:
China Does Not Seek to Disprove but Work with and Be Receptive to Others
Under this model, Chinese state-owned companies carry out contracting and subcontracting works and provide everything from engineering and design services to construction materials ...
On September 6, 2023, the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Russian Federation hosted a conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative
On September 6, 2023, the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Russian Federation hosted a conference on the occasion ...
Like Russia, India is likely to resist the evolution of the international system towards a rigid U.S.-China bipolarity since such an evolution would inevitably deprive New Delhi of the freedom of manoeuvring that it enjoys now
Recently there have been many speculations about the likely future of India-US relations and their impact on the Indian posture ...
... to the remoteness of Alaska itself from the contiguous United States, there are no big security problems there, either.
The second time Russia experienced a threat from the East was within a short period, from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s, when China’s growing ambitions came into conflict with Soviet dominance in the world socialist camp. Then the threat from Asia was clear and even forced the feeble, slow-moving Soviet regime to make special efforts to strengthen its eastern borders in case ...
Regional fragmentation of the semiconductor industry will only intensify in the long run
On the eve of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s
visit
to China on August 27-29, the White House took some conciliatory steps. The U.S.
removed 27 Chinese companies
from the so-called
Unverified list
compiled by the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce. This list includes companies ...