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RIAC and CITIC Group discuss interim results and prospects for the development of the One Belt, One Road Initiative

... and the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies (China). Kong Dan, Chairman of the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, delivered opening remarks. During the roundtable, leading Russian and Chinese experts discussed the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the context of world order transformation and its role in modernizing global economy. The experts summarized the ten-year evolution of the initiative and compared the BRI with alternative projects of other actors. Special attention was paid to ...

04.12.2023

Past the Point of No Return

... may other multilateral Eurasian projects can be looked at as sprouts of the new international system germinating through the debris of the old one. These sprouts have to be properly watered, fertilized, pruned and groomed. Not all of them are likely to ... ... Romanov Empire followed its Eastern neighbor into oblivion. History does not need to repeat itself another time—both Chia and Russia can draw appropriate lessons from their past traumatic experiences. Unlike it was the case in the early XX century, today ...

20.10.2023

Ten Years of the Belt and Road Initiative: Preliminary Results

An important task for the future for Russia is to sync the EAEU and the BRI, developing a roadmap and pointing to projects that could demonstrate its concrete content In the 10 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21 st Century Maritime Silk Road in 2013, which are the two ...

08.09.2023

The World May Become Interconnected

... Road, join it, and participate in alleviating global poverty, as I mentioned in the beginning. What is the role of the Eurasian Economic Union and Eurasia in the BRI? To some, it may seem like the Eurasian Union, being an economic bloc mainly around Russia, may come into some kind of conflict with the BRI, because those are two partly competing projects. Is it a true competition, or can the BRI include a lot of different economic blocs within it? I don’t think that there will be conflict because of the recent agreements between President Xi Jinping ...

02.05.2023

Power without Soft Power: China’s Outreach to Central Asia

... water supplies, which will lead to conflicts between countries in the region and, perhaps, with neighbors such as China and Russia. The mismanagement of water resources had been a recurring theme in the CIA’s analyses, which as early as the 1960s mentioned ... ... gold to avoid a major economic crisis that could harm Chinese gas supplies and the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Researchers at Oxford University ran 738 simulations combining possible changes in water consumption with 80 future climate ...

22.07.2021

Moscow Is Still Central Asia’s Top Security Ally

... through the Northern route is mainly directed towards Russia [ ii ]. The progressive disengagement by the United States and NATO has been considered as a substantial loss by the Central Asian countries. By May of this year, according to the Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan, the US should withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. While this event could reshape Russia’s role in the region, the agreement between the Taliban and Washington seems to overlook the potential consequences for the security of Central Asia [ iii ]. Moreover, a widespread fear of Central Asian returnees from the Middle East and the ...

17.03.2021

Russian Perception of the Belt and Road Initiative from 2013 to 2019

... Russian or Chinese authors. More concretely, first, Kang , Ravitsky , Smirnova , Qin and Xie argue that Russia recognizes the power and plans of China to realize its rejuvenation and enhance international influence, and Russia plays a key role in the BRI. Russia–China Dialogue: The 2020 Model Second, Kang , Li, Yan , Ravitsky , Yilmaz , Liu , Smirnova and Xie believe that the two governments enjoy the strong trust and firm partnership, especially for the top leaders, and this trust between top ...

02.12.2020

Eight Principles of the “Greater Eurasian Partnership”

... modest agreements between regional integration unions and individual states. Concluding the work on connecting the EAEU and the BRI should be the crucial first stage in building the Partnership. Creating independent Eurasian payment systems and rating agencies,... ... elements of the future roadmap for this colossal continental project is particularly important today. Bilateral cooperation between Russian and Chinese experts in international relations, economics, sociology and security could play a very important role in ...

28.09.2020

Pakistan’s Role in Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership

... increasing bilateral trade, a post-war trans-Afghan corridor could conceptually function as the northern branch of CPEC, prospectively called N-CPEC+ (with “N” referring to North and the “+” referring to the expanded framework like it does in BRICS+). Russia, both as a state and also some of its state-owned and even private companies, might be reluctant to participate in any CPEC-branded projects owing to their sensitivities about o ending their Indian partners, so bilateral economic cooperation could ...

03.06.2020

International Relations in South Asia: Russia’s and Sri Lanka’s Views

... help relieve tensions. Western critics have argued that Russia may in future utilize the presence of the Islamic State in the region as an opportunity to increase its influence through military and economic assistance. Others portend that China’s BRI may create favourable conditions for Russia to exploit regional structural weaknesses to its advantage and attenuate any alignment between South Asian countries and the West through a geo-political toolkit. The strengthening of security ties between Islamabad and Moscow have often been cited ...

29.11.2019
 

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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