The importance of the strategic partnership with China and sought to set the record straight on a number of other geopolitical issues ... ... ties between Moscow and Washington
In a comprehensive interview with
Newsweek
, Russian ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov laid out his country's demands to the West on the current crisis over... ... energy as a weapon against unfavorable Western policies. Does Russia reject these accusations and will Russia retaliate against U.S. sanctions?
It has been said many times...
China now seems the most likely actor to take a position in the post-withdrawal Afghanistan,... ... remains to be seen whether Beijing wishes to engage in a conflict that the USSR and NATO had difficulty in controlling before it
Afghanistan has been a priority area... ... Central Asian border.
Andrey Kazantsev:
Afghanistan Crisis: Security Problems for Russia and Central Asian States
The situation deteriorated rapidly in the late 1970s...
... complex”, as “pervasive instability” and in general threating to NATO
The document reveals deep concern about the current security ... ... observer can easily draw a parallel with similar documents in Russia, which are also full of alarmistic assessments. Of course,... ... apparently as a derivative – In the next NATO’s strategic concept) China is mentioned several times. It is characterized as a potential,... ... in such a way that it can be interpreted as the Alliance’s refusal to discuss Russia’s concerns about the principle of rotation ...
The Soviet Union might have lost the first Cold War, but Russia is ahead in the rematch with the US and, this time, has every chance of coming ... ... on more than one front. Now, with Beijing on the side of Moscow, Russia can utilize China as a strategic resource, he went on to say. Secondly, the country is much more... ... big question is where Germany will end up,”
he concluded, referring to the dominant NATO power that has embarked on the controversial Nord Stream 2 project with Russia...
... ever was, and the environment for that immensely more complex and fluid than ever
Russian-American strategic relations are entering uncharted waters with the demise of... ... caliber with no ambition to prevail in the world.
America’s main challenger now is China, which has surpassed it in terms of GDP in PPP terms and is expected to surpass... ... developed their weapons in the 1950s and 1960s, have always been U.S. allies within NATO, and their weapons were always considered by Moscow to be part of the Western bloc’s...
... expire in early February, even despite the upcoming presidential transition
The Russian ambassador to the United States said there is still time to extend the Strategic... ... due to expire in early February, even despite the upcoming presidential transition.
Anatoly Antonov, whose diplomatic career largely has been spent focused on major arms... ... treaty’s term for up to five years “without pre-conditions.”
The United States wants China to be part of any new START negotiations, but Antonov said Beijing is “not happy...
... fronts. On the eastern front, Brussels has been in conflict with a malign Moscow since 2014: refusing to repeal sanctions against Russia, deflecting all the Kremlin’s new information attacks, and attempting to maintain a unified position among its disorderly ... ... anything, the reverse is likely: the inevitable difficulty of economic recovery and likely escalation of the confrontation with China will push the Trump administration to ramp up pressure on the EU even further.
“The European Union is worse than China....
... prospects of developing Arctic hydrocarbon resources and the Northern Sea Route became the top priority, while in the mid-2010s, those issues were partially eclipsed by Moscow’s new confrontation with Washington and a sharp decline in relations with its NATO allies.
China is thousands of miles away from the Arctic, so its interests in the region differ widely from those of Russia. They primarily stem from China’s position as one of the two leading global powers of the twenty-first century, and, on a more formal level, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, which entails global responsibility. China has been ...
... Caucasus challenges, the region retains its independent significance
In late 2016, the Russian International Affairs Council published
The Evolution of the Post-Soviet Space:... ... between the former Soviet republics.
It was in the Caucasus that Georgia, in its bid for NATO membership, held a referendum on acceding to the alliance and over two-thirds of... ... processes; previously, these actors had either insignificant or no influence in the region. China is the starkest example. As Asian Studies specialist
Stanislav Tarasov
aptly...
... should not be made a scapegoat to justify America’s problems with China, South Korea and Japan. Such tactics will only increase the ... ... Within the context of increasing regional instability, constant accusations of supporting and arming terrorists and the unwillingness ... ... particularly the United States, is undoubtedly Turkey, still a member of NATO. The country disrespected international norms and laws and ... ... shackled completely, but with the latest
engagement
of U.S. and Russia, they were temporarily stopped from escalating. Back in ...
