The trip is likely to be quite special and important
In mid-May Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will fly to China on an official state visit. A sceptic would say that this visit is not really a big deal: the Russian leader and his Chinese counterpart, Chairman Xi Jinping had bilateral meetings at least forty times since 2013, when Xi was first elected as Chairman ...
...
Almost 17 years ago, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
pointed out
that the intensive deployment of the theater missile defense system in the Asia Pacific calls global strategic stability into question, because it could be used against Russia and China. In 2018, the head of Russian diplomacy insistently
urged
Japan to enter into a dialogue about the U.S. plans to create a global missile defense system to prevent violation of Russia’s interests, in accordance with the principle of indivisible ...
Beijing offers an alternative to past approaches for the Mashriq states, which have spent many years grappling with internal and external challenges
On November 30, 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry
published
five points of China’s position on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Namely, China called for stopping hostilities, protecting civilians, providing them with humanitarian aid, expanding international diplomatic coordination, along with seeking a common political ...
... political camps, particularly the United States and the USSR, started. This order was maintained by their mutual nuclear deterrence in a politically and ideologically divided world. As a result of the efforts of the Soviet Union, in East European countries, China and several other states Communist parties came to power, and global socialist system emerged. In the rest of the world, under political, ideological, military and economic leadership of the United States market relations were being developed, military ...
... this sense is very illustrative. Russia’s trade and economic interaction with BRICS partners has only grown since the large-scale and unprecedented restrictions were imposed on our country. We are reaching record trade levels with Brazil, India and China.
There has been a steady development of the whole range of cooperation in three key areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian contacts. The recent examples of practical achievements in BRICS include the launch of the BRICS ...
... transformative effect on the Russian-Chinese relations. Even before the conflict the two sides enjoyed robust strategic relationship which was officially called
comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in new era,
a unique status within a wide China’s network of strategic partnerships. The conflict in Ukraine together with the ongoing deterioration of the Sino-American relations have transformed this partnership into a rather close interdependence.
An important feature of this relationship ...
... some point between 2030 and 2035 triggering a chain of profound shifts in the planetary ecosystem. The global economic growth will continue though it might significantly slow down; Asia is likely to remain the key driver of the world’s economy with China being the most powerful economy on the planet. National economic priorities are likely to continue shifting from traditional GNP indicators to more comprehensive sustainable development parameters. By 2035, a large part of the humankind will live ...
... substantive conversation on this topic with
interested parties and associations.
Ivan Timofeev:
Hybrid War and Hybrid Peace
Already in April, 2024, the Russian leader’s idea was being pursued during Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to China. Russia’s top diplomat told the press about an agreement with the Chinese to begin a dialogue on
the structure of security in Eurasia,
a topic that was addressed
during the visit
. The very fact that Putin’s idea appeared on the agenda of ...
... of certain types of state activity. We already see that the modern state is faced with such serious challenges that foreign policy is everywhere subject to considerations of a domestic, political nature. This applies to the Western countries, Russia, China, India and everyone else, and places the most significance on such things that existing theories are not able to make heads or tails of them, simply due to the methodology they have.
One of the curious effects of the two World Wars and, especially,...
... Grimson. At his invitation, a seminar on the third pole, the Himalayas, was
organized
at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik in 2011. In 2013, a similar workshop was held in Dehradun. Notably, it was attended by a representative delegation from China, which was seen by its participants as a desire of New Delhi and Beijing to start a dialogue on regional issues from their scientific “component.”
D Suba Chandran:
Polar Regions Offer Enough Space for India and Russia to Map What Nations Can ...