Search: Asia (19 materials)

 

Central Asia between Digital Silk Road and Digital Silk Way

Central Asia in the age of digital technologies finds itself between two megaprojects of China and the European Union as the Russian Empire and British Empire in the XIX century competed for this one of the most landlocked regions of the world. The victory of ...

04.04.2024

What the Silk Road history teaches about the modern Red Sea crisis

... the ships over camels in the XVI century was not the only decisive factor of the transformation in global trade. It was the matter of security along with the unstable and more complicated conditions on the Silk Road that contributed to the decline of Asian-centered trade. From the point of geopolitical theory, it is natural that a superpower struggles to protect its key trade roads to support its economic stability. In retrospect, since the beginning of the Silk Road trade, the central parts of the ...

20.02.2024

Russia's Eastern Policy: Old Restrictions and New Conditions

The past year and a half may represent a turning point in relations between Russia and Asia. For Moscow, strengthening relations with regional powers and their economies has become not so much a choice as a necessity. The desire of the West to inflict economic and military defeat on Russia has led to a rapid rupture of many ties between ...

05.09.2023

The sun rises in the East: A plea for identity, nations and international understanding

... now slowly dissolving, and the sphere of influence of the self-proclaimed “Western community of values” is being minimized. In the East, where the sun rises, and thus hope, new spheres of power and influence are rising too – the powerhouse Eurasia is awakening. More and more countries are wishing to join the BRICS alliance, which has long been a sleepy nexus, and thus, together with Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the so-called developing and emerging countries are becoming increasingly ...

19.06.2023

Asia, Eurasia and the European Crisis: Results of 2022

Russia is yet to realise that countries of the Global Majority, represented by Asian and Eurasian states, are not subjective, but objective allies of Moscow in its conflict with the West For Russia, 2023 will be a period of strengthening relations with its natural partners outside the hostile West and forming with them a new infrastructure ...

09.01.2023

Russia’s Turn to the East: Between Choice and Necessity

Relations with the Asian countries are indeed becoming not a choice, but a necessity The coming era will require states to have a much greater degree of de facto sovereignty and, in a sense, a capacity for limited autarky. Therefore, for all the importance of ties outside ...

02.09.2022

A Russian Perspective on the Food Crisis

... (including urea-ammonia and phosphate fertilizers). Russia is ready to keep on strictly fulfilling its obligations under international contracts regarding shipments of agricultural products. We are aware of the importance of our wheat for the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East . In the current agricultural year, our exports will amount to 37 million tons of grain, next year we plan to increase it up to 50 million tons. Russia intends to continue providing humanitarian assistance,...

17.06.2022

The Growth Engines of the Global South

... partnership has served as the backbone for growth and innovation among the advanced economies in the preceding decades. In this respect, a closer economic partnership between India and China would redound significantly to development areas such as Eurasian connectivity, the growth in the regional partners of the two countries, greater scope for joint innovation projects and the launching of South-South platforms in the financial sector. For Russia the Global South is a rapidly expanding market that ...

05.10.2021

Russia, China, and the Indo-Pacific

... Indo-Pacific power? For a perspective on these matters, Jongsoo Lee interviews Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and chair of the Center’s Foreign and Security Policy Program. It is said that the 21st century is the century of China and Asia. How is Russia dealing with the rise of China and Asia? Is there a “pivot” toward China/Asia in Russia’s foreign policy and global priorities? Russia has had to recognize that in the East, as well as in the West, it is now flanked by a power ...

29.09.2020

Measures Short of War

... arsenal would make a blind bit of difference to either our short or our long-term national security. Despite the occasional burst of shirtfronting, nationalistic, tough talk, Australia is a small to middle level power on the south-eastern periphery of Asia which since first white settlement has been integrally dependent on great and powerful friends. For more than seventy years this has entailed commitment to the US domination of the Western Alliance. Among other things this has meant America has profited ...

06.08.2019
 

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