The Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era is currently at an unprecedentedly high level and continues to develop
The political trust between China and Russia has been steadily strengthened over the years, leading to close strategic coordination and ...
... building of a platform for regional integration arrangements such as the EU, EAEU and ASEAN. While a platform for Eurasia’s regional integration arrangements may well be attained in the distant future in line with visions such as the Greater Eurasian Partnership, a more realistic and near-term prospect could be the formation of a framework for cooperation among Eurasia’s development institutions to co-finance large-scale development projects as well as to build a continental financial safety nets,...
... only country in the region free of anti-Japanese sentiments, is too important to Tokyo. Distrustful of the United States after its casting adrift of Egypt, a truly reliable ally, and unwilling to face China one on one, Japan sees its only chance in a partnership with Russia and in building a regional security system on the Russia-Japan-U.S.A. partnership in order to contain Chinese expansion. The scenario is also beneficial for Russia, which is apprehensive of its powerful southern neighbor’s ...
... Estonia. He is an acknowledged political scientist with an expertise in Russia and its relations to the Baltic region and the EU. In this short interview, conducted on the sidelines of the international conference ‘Russia and the EU: potential for partnership?’, he comments on Estonia’s role in the widening of Russo-European cooperation
Mr Tüür, do you see a certain level of dissent from the pro-EU mainstream in Estonia?
Well, there are two fundamental aspects to this ...
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For those who stretched out in the quaint idealism of the first session, Anatoly Chubais’ speech must have come as a cold shower. Opening the second panel that addressed the economic parameters of the partnership and featuring representatives of big business, Mr Chubais said that the Customs Union has to be reflected in the negotiations as free trade between the EU and non-WTO-member Belarus and Kazakhstan is hardly imaginable. Downright contradicting ...
Mr Barroso talks about a partnership of choice, while Mr Medvedev calls for more pragmatism. Discussing their relations, European and Russian representatives were somewhat out of touch with each other at the international conference 'Russia and the EU: potential for partnership?...