... core, strategic linchpin of influence for the Global South. We call it the "Global Majority". Of course, we are not a southern country. So we call ourselves, refer to ourselves, as Northern Eurasia – a balance of the world and Greater Eurasia.
HOPPE / MARZBAAN: Russia's orientation away from the West towards the East will apparently not only be seen in terms of economic, scientific, and technological development and security, as you said, but a quest for a new non-Western worldview, a new
Weltanschauung
.
But ...
... turn, is a platform for developing strategies to achieve a new, more just world order. It is precisely this order, where the possibility of forceful dominance of a narrow group of states is minimised, that seems most suitable for the arrangement of Eurasia. Thus, Russia’s global policy in 2024 also worked towards the construction of Greater Eurasia.
Source:
Valdai. Discussion club
... For more than 15 years, the main driving factor has been the economic growth of Asian countries and their ability to act for Russia not only as trading partners, but also as sources of necessary technologies and other resources, which are limited in Russia. Asia is gradually and increasingly being viewed as a replacement for Europe, a traditional partner in matters of modernisation and increasing competitiveness at the global level.
Moreover, the events of recent years have confirmed that Asian countries ...
The past year and a half may represent a turning point in relations between Russia and Asia. For Moscow, strengthening relations with regional powers and their economies has become not so much a choice as a necessity. The desire of the West to inflict economic and military defeat on Russia has led to a rapid rupture of many ties between ...
... was launched. This international payment system is based on the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) under the auspices of the Chinese Central Bank.[8]
The downfall of Western arrogance
Like Germany’s historical East, including the territories of Prussia and Silesia, the world’s East, Asia, has often been seen as a backward region. Many Asian countries, like China, have only been good for serving as an “extended workbench.”
Everything has been measured against the “Western community of values” and evaluated and devalued with ...
... Western control. To a certain extent, this can also occur due to the weakening of the main formal institutions of globalisation, where the West plays a dominant role.
However, such an objective coincidence of the interests of the countries of Asia and Eurasia with Russia, as a rule, does not lead to their readiness to join Russia in its conflict with the West. It would probably be a mistake to think that states which remain poorly endowed with everything except demographic resources and are solving the problems ...
... issue of the dependence of internal stability on interaction with various external partners. To what extent this is true, we have yet to figure out. But even now, one can make several assumptions that are directly related to what place relations with Asia will occupy for Russia in the coming years.
First, relations with China and, especially, other Asian states are still no way to resolve problems of an existential nature. Even taking into account the fact that cooperation with partners outside Europe in the energy sector ...
... (including urea-ammonia and phosphate fertilizers).
Russia is ready to keep on strictly fulfilling its obligations under international contracts regarding shipments of agricultural products. We are aware of the importance of our wheat for the nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the
Middle East
. In the current agricultural year, our exports will amount to 37 million tons of grain, next year we plan to increase it up to 50 million tons. Russia intends to continue providing humanitarian assistance, including through the UN World Food Program.
Russia’s goal has always been to stabilize the situation in the world food market and to provide assistance to countries that need high-quality ...
... recognize that in the East, as well as in the West, it is now flanked by a power with a superior economic strength, a source of investment, and a modernization resource. Hence, it has rebalanced its foreign policy more evenly between Europe and China/Asia. Russia has been able to adapt to a strong China; it has managed to build a relationship with it, squarely based on national interests. After the 2014 Ukraine crisis and the ensuing confrontation with the United States and alienation from Europe, Russia ...
... Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore became observers to the Arctic Council.
The Report examines non-regional actors’ interests in the Arctic, their policy frameworks in the region and principal areas of Arctic studies. Authors also explore the Asian states’ positions on the international status of the Arctic. Specific attention is given to the prospects of cooperation between Russia and India, China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore in developing the region.
Authors:
A.N. Fedorovsky, Dr. of Economics (Part 3); L.V. Filippova (Foreword); T.A. Makhmutov, Ph.D. in Political Science (Foreword); H. Nadarajah (Part 5); V.E. Petrovsky,...
