At the final event of the year dedicated to the Asia Pacific, leading Russian researchers of the field shared their assessments of the most significant trends of 2020 and tried to forecast regional ... ... Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, presented his understanding of recent developments in India. According to the expert, New Delhi faces two major challenges: the COVID-19 pandemic and the rivalry with China. The former ...
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None of this means, however, that the numerous dialogue mechanisms that exist in the Asia-Pacific region are purely imitative and decorative in nature. They perform an important... ... from Chinese assertiveness, at least to the extent possible.
Anton Tsvetov:
ASEAN and Russia Look to Achieve Their Full Potential
In the coming years, these alternative formats... ... ‘Indo-Pacific’ initiatives and platforms. The revived U.S.–Japan–Australia–India quadrilateral dialogue - no doubt aimed at new and better containment of China...
Washington consensus 2.0 / China–India Axis / Multipolar balance of power / New bipolarity
A few months ago, the author wrote an
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for the RIAC website ... ... article attempted to construct several scenarios for Europe’s future depending on the possible development trajectories of Russia and the EU through 2024. The scenario matrix for Greater Europe was built along two axes: a weak (fragmented) EU versus ...
... special role in Central Asia. The later Beijing takes serious steps towards Delhi, the more difficult it will be to involve India in the Community of Common Destiny.
Russia’s interests
Strictly speaking, the Indo-Pacific does not directly involve Russia in any way. The current US strategy does not view Moscow as a serious player in either the Indian Ocean or the Asia-Pacific region. Geographically, the Indo-Pacific does not extend north of Hokkaido and the Korean Peninsula. Perhaps that is reason Washington effectively ignores ongoing attempts of Japanese-Russian rapprochement under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ...