Interview with Andrey Kortunov and Zhao Huasheng
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine drags on. In response to France’s President Emmanuel Macron floating the idea of sending NATO troops to Ukraine, there has been a storm of indignation and a wave of disavowals ... ... crisis that has an impact on global strategic security? In early March 2024, during the China-Russia Dialogue 2024 in the city of Sanya, the Beijing Club for International... ..., like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced...
... its nuclear dimension.
Elena Karnaukhova: In the context of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine, there are going ... ... help of the Soviet Union, in the countries of Eastern Europe, China and several other states, Communists parties came to power,... ... China’s rapid economic and technological growth and Beijing’s refusal to accept the American offer to become a junior partner of ... ... reality fraught with a direct military clash between Russia and NATO. But the main thing is that the scenario you are asking about ...
... Initiative
Editor's note:
From March 20 to 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Russia. During the trip, President Xi and his counterpart Vladimir Putin released several... ... War mentality, and destabilizing the world for its unilateral gain. How do we make of China and Russia's frequent mention of the U.S.?
Sergey Sanakoev:
Russia and China... ... region. How do you comment on this move by the U.S.?
Sanakoev:
They are making a new NATO in the Asia-Pacific region. It's crazy of them. We even don't understand why mankind...
... Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is still considered close to Russia’s president and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. His recent ... ...
President Putin has mentioned on Feb. 24 that Ukraine’s accession to NATO warrants Russia’s military intervention to prevent it. However,... ... Not by force, but through constructive destruction, through refusal to participate in it. But after the last demand to stop NATO ... ...
Sanctions are getting tighter. Will Russia become more dependent on China?
«There is no question about that: we will be more integrated ...
The U.S. felt that it needed to reshape European perceptions to revive the “Russian threat”, galvanizing the West under its hegemonic influence
Experts are scrambling to explain why the U.S. prioritized containing Russia over China despite most prior indicators very strongly suggesting that it would prioritize the second scenario. U.S. President Joe ... ..., after it provoked a third round of civil war hostilities with Washington’s backing. The Russian leader also claimed that NATO clandestinely established military infrastructure in the former Soviet Republic for the purpose of carrying out a surprise ...
... surpassing the last defense budget of Donald Trump. It is inevitable that the U.S. will press forward to modernize its nuclear triad. Russia to a large extent has already done so. It is a reverse situation in comparison to the Cold War era. This time NATO has an overwhelming superiority in conventional weapons, and Russia with its nuclear doctrine has to rely heavily on nuclear ... ... nuclear technologies, which is an obvious risk inherent in the AUK–U.S. adventurism. The U.S. strategy of a new cold war with China envisages the creeping involvement of India in the anti-Beijing military alliance, which will inevitably spur a nuclear ...
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...