... next year are not circumscribed to the proverbial “low base effects” and include such key locomotives of global growth as China and East Asia more broadly as well as continued support and anti-crisis measures across the largest advanced economies: ... ... measures in China is the development of the 5G network, with allocations for digital infrastructure to reach 0.6 trn dollars.
Russia’s economic performance next year will be affected to a significant degree by global trends, though the effectiveness ...
For the first time in the last two decades, India and Russia have not held their annual summit. Moscow communicated severe concerns on New Delhi joining the Indo-Pacific initiative ... ... casting aspersions over New Delhi's decision to join the Quad and tilting excessively toward the US. In fact, India used the anti-China card in the 1960s, when Sino-Russian relations sored, to get closer to Russia. India developed a very close association,...
Russia and India are going to lose a lot if they have to take sides in this forthcoming US-China rivalry
"Russia is losing India!"—I have been hearing such lamentations in Moscow for as long as I have followed world politics. Pessimism and alarmism are not a rare phenomenon among intellectuals and experts in any country, Russia ...
At the final event of the year dedicated to the Asia Pacific, leading Russian researchers of the field shared their assessments of the most significant trends of 2020 and tried to forecast regional ... ... Director of Programs, spoke about the role of sanctions in contemporary world, particularly stressing the increasingly acute U.S.–China rivalry. He noted that although the COVID-19 might have been expected to unite the nations, it only exacerbated the divide ...
We will not see an early US-Russian summit in 2021
1. Narratives
Russian leadership tried hard to avoid any statements that would indicate its preference ... ... the transatlantic relations that were seriously damaged by his predecessor. Another burning matter is a trade agreement with China: it will not end the US-Chinese economic or technological competition, but can at least help to prevent a full-fledged trade ...
... coming years
RCEP will deliver a strong impulse to greater liberalization in the world economy in the coming years, with US and China increasingly likely to compete in advancing their models of mega-regional integration projects. Globalization is coming ... ... something that has been lacking in the global economic architecture and the global economy’s response to the current crisis.
For Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union, the creation of RCEP is both a challenge and an opportunity. It is a challenge because ...
... coalitions of diverse stakeholders to make any tangible progress. Private-public partnerships should become common practices in various multilateral arrangements.
Andrey Kortunov, Zhao Huasheng:
The Coming Bipolarity and Its Implications: Views from China and Russia
In sum, if multilateral practices are to survive in years to come, they will survive in the format of ad hoc multilateralism or project-based multilateralism. Project-based multilateralism will become as common in the international relations as ...
... the Strategic Arms Control Treaty, due to expire in early February, even despite the upcoming presidential transition
The Russian ambassador to the United States said there is still time to extend the Strategic Arms Control Treaty, due to expire in ... ... Russia has offered to extend the treaty’s term for up to five years “without pre-conditions.”
The United States wants China to be part of any new START negotiations, but Antonov said Beijing is “not happy with such an invitation.” The ambassador ...
On December 3, 2020 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a webinar titled “The 2020 U.S. presidential election: implications for Russia and China”
On December 3, 2020 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a webinar titled “The 2020 U.S. presidential election: implications for Russia and China”.
Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, ...
Although the U.S.-China-Russia triangle is still a popular and useful analytical pattern and possible future scenario for relations, it does not resemble that of the Cold War
The Chinese authorities have never accepted or used the concept of China-U.S. bipolarity. Neither ...