... Russia blocking further development of the economic aspects of the SCO.
There is also concerns that disputes between Pakistan and India will bring the organization’s work to a standstill. The most likely flashpoints are Kashmir, where part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is being constructed, or conflict over the disputed parts of the Sino-Indian border. Even with the SCO’s record of security cooperation, nobody imagines that these long-standing differences will simply be put aside.
Given the slew of problems, the SCO is not worth Iran’s time and effort. Membership will not ...
... obtained every legal ground for processing Iran's application in compliance with the SCO norms. Besides, after the Ufa summit, India and Pakistan have prepared their memorandums of obligations for acquiring membership in close contact with representatives ... ... create conditions for expanded cooperation in fighting terrorism in the new reality.
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Russia-China: toward a New Quality of
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The SCO states believe that the evil can be eradicated ...
... serious counter-balance here. I mean China’s own “encirclement,” into which the Indians are being steadily driven, volens nolens, by the USA, Australia, Japan, and Vietnam.
It is this sort of “hedging” against and about China that India is being maneuvered into with pinpoint accuracy by the US. So China can see that India gravitates to powers that can hardly be counted among China’s best friends. This is particularly true of Japan that, in view of China’s growing military ...
... we expect ASEAN to play a larger diplomatic role in the Asia-Pacific region? What is the future of the Asia-Pacific region?
Maavak: Southeast Asia is a colorful tapestry weaved by aeons of indigenous cultures as well as civilizational strands from China and India. By virtue of being bridges between both ancient civilizations, ASEAN is a natural buffer of stability as well as a beltway for prosperity.
These unique factors alone equip ASEAN to play larger arbitration and diplomatic roles in the Asia Pacific ...
... This is a just a fraction of the critical infrastructural and logistics deficit worldwide. India alone has close to 300 million people who live on less than $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity and here is where close ties forged by Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can make a difference. China is facilitating trade and development for Third World nations in ways major Western funders could not. However, China may need to fine-tune its Belt and Road initiative towards a more Asia-centric approach. This has a better chance of success due ...
... changed in the past fifty years. Washington has so far not found a balance between defending its own national interests and acting with global responsibility, and this may become a critical obstacle to building a new world order in the foreseeable future.
China and India: Facets of Self-Limitation
The world’s second most powerful and influential country, China, has made much more progress in this respect over the last several decades. In the 1960s–1970s, the country’s unpredictability and ideological ...
... COP-10 meet their voluntary goals of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by that time.
Back in 2012 when still at Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, the creator of the BRIC (now BRICS) model, predicted that the combined GDP of eight countries-- China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Indonesia-- will account for about a third of the world economy by 2020. The G7 countries – Germany, the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, France and Italy – will account for just over ...
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Country
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Source
Brazil
336,8
362,2
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–
–
–
Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC)
China
1807,57
1947,65
2010,61
2841,4
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–
Fiscal Year Book, Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China
India
609,5
488,0
639,1
789,8
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–
Annual Reports, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Russia
220
789
472
514
465
609,6
OECD Development Assistance Committee, Rossotrudnichestvo
South Africa
89,2
119,5
98,4
160,5
151,9
156,7
Estimates ...
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. South Africa MUST do More to PUT Africa at Core of Commercial, Foreign Policies // Standard Bank. June 12, 2012.
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. Tjonneland, E. N. Providing Development Aid to Africa. Comparing South Africa with China, India and Brazil. // SAFPI Policy Brief 25. Cape Town: South African Foreign Policy Initiative. 2013.
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. Kandalinstev, V. The BRICS Countries in the Flow of Foreign Direct Investments // Eastern Analytics. Yearbook 2012. Economics and Politics of Eastern ...
On June 29, 2016, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev was in Berlin at a symposium under
project
New Responses to Global Challenges to Finance, Energy Security and Climate Change: Cooperation between the U.S.A., Russia, China and India attended by think-tankers from the four countries.
The discussants analyzed the condition of the global system in 2015 and profound changes in the international economic relationships, as well as the growth models to be taken up by Russia, the U....
