... looked like a turn from a Greater Europe toward a Greater Eurasia, which many took for a pivot to the East, specifically to China.
In fact, this was a pivot by Russia toward itself, in search of a balancing point in a quickly changing global environment.... ... Asian accent.
Bilateral relations and multilateral formats — in particular, as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS and RIC (Russia, India, China) — have created conditions in which Russia, neither the largest nor a dominant player, has ...
... system — formed the basis for the construction of the European Union. Even though the European Union is not in great shape today and individual parts of this complex machine... ... is worth looking for sprouts of new multilateralism elsewhere. Examples include the BRICS+ project and the “Community of Common Destiny.” Both initiatives attempt to... ...
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Seventh Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China Qian Qichen stated that the world is still in a transitionary phase, and that...
... economic development and prosperity.
The rich potential of joint growth of Asian countries – from India to Japan and from China to Indonesia – is the subject of a study done by Timofei Bordachev, Anastasia Likhacheva and Zhang Xin. China’s ... ... “islandness” by launching an ambitious westward project.
Georgy Toloraya takes a broader look by trying to figure out how the BRICS, a forum where Russia and China work closely together, can be turned into a platform for establishing new principles of ...
