... elites from the United States, Western Europe, he became (and still is) one of the most informed political scientists in Russia. In an interview to
BUSINESS Online
, he told us whether nuclear war is possible, whether we will become a satellite of China, and why some in the Russian government are against designing a new ideology.
— The special military operation [in Ukraine] has been going on for more than a year. During this period, in your opinion, have any dramatic changes occurred in Russia ...
... the focus shifting from “stemming infection” to “protecting health and preventing severe cases”. The purpose is to better coordinate COVID-19 response with economic and social development, and ensure the normalcy of people’s life and work.
China’s COVID-19 policy adjustment is science-based, timely and necessary. What we have done to fight against COVID-19 in the past three years has laid the foundation and created necessary conditions for the latest round of policy adjustment. We are well-prepared ...
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Klepach,...
On November 26, 2021 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a round table “International Cooperation in the Fight against COVID-19: Russian and Chinese Approaches”
On November 26, 2021 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a round table “International Cooperation in the Fight against COVID-19: Russian ...
... to come to a definitive judgment" on the origins of COVID-19, but stressed that it is "not going to be for lack of hard work or effort on this issue to try to uncover as much as we can about what happened."
In any case, to argue that China is responsible for the global spread of COVID-19 is no more convincing than to argue that Vladimir Putin defined the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election in the United States. To focus the US public attention on China and its alleged wrongdoings is a wrong COVID agenda.
The grim reality ...
... 0.32% of their combined GNI. Initial estimates indicate that within total ODA, DAC countries spent USD 12 billion in 2020 on COVID-19 related activities. As a result, ODA assistance in 2020 increased by 3.5% compared to 2019 and reached its highest level ... ... the OECD the total debt relief extended by advanced economies in 2020 amounted to USD 541 mn. At the same time, according to China’s Ministry of Finance, the Export-Import Bank of China as well as the China International Development Cooperation Agency ...
... countries and regions.
GT: The West has been hyping up Russia and China's so-called "vaccine diplomacy," claiming that the two countries are pursuing geopolitical interests through vaccine exports and aid. What do you think of it?
Denisov:
China has so far provided at least 350 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines overseas. Russia's vaccines exports are not as large as China's, but it has cooperated with 66 countries. San Marino has beaten the outbreak with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine. At the same time, Russia has also taken the lead in proposing ...
... pandemic and testing of new effective vaccines. According to RAND’s estimates the creation of a new effective vaccine against Covid-19 can deliver dividends to the world economy equivalent to 3.4 trn dollars, which is more than 4% of global GDP per annum.... ... is concentrated in health-care and digital economy/telecommunications. One of the priority areas of anti-crisis measures in China is the development of the 5G network, with allocations for digital infrastructure to reach 0.6 trn dollars.
Russia’s ...
... polycentric) world order.
Andrey Kortunov:
Between Polycentrism and Bipolarity
In spite of this, there are more and more discussions on the bipolarization of China and the United States in academic circles both in China and in Russia. Especially after the COVID-19 outbreak, China-U.S. relations have deteriorated sharply, conflicts between China and the U.S. have intensified, and bipolarization has become a hot issue in academic and political discussions of international politics. More and more often, observers of contemporary ...
The once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe of COVID-19 has shown that the trend of bipolarization between China and the U.S. is likely to continue and deepen in the post-pandemic period
For most of the time after the end of the cold war, the contradiction between a unipolar and multipolar world was the main focus of the world structure. But now this state ...
