... Syria—seemed to confirm this assumption, and they entered into their decisive phase with the outbreak of fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, and Palestine. These conflicts, directly linked to the great powers, are painful and destructive, but implicitly motivated ... ....
First,
regarding nuclear weapons. It is not that they have ceased to function as a deterrent. Their possession by Russia, China—and to some extent Israel—does deter those states’ adversaries from actions that they would likely otherwise take ...
Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the Russian-Western relations have had deep transformative ... ...
comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination in new era,
a unique status within a wide China’s network of strategic partnerships. The conflict in Ukraine together with the... ... Russia’s reorientation of economic ties from Europe towards China later led to the accusations against China that Beijing had been informed by Russians about the coming conflict...
Five questions regarding China-Russia relations and Chinese policy through the prism of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
One unexpected outcome of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that China-Russia relations have taken center stage in global affairs. Even though China is not a party to the conflict, while the Russia-Ukraine crisis has nothing to do with ...
... the same time, China’s rapid economic and technological growth and Beijing’s refusal to accept the American offer to become a junior partner of the United States put... ... front of economic challenges. Since the mid-1990s, two major powers, namely Russia and China, have regularly declared multipolarity as the desired configuration of the world... ... declarations, but the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and
the geopolitical earthquake in Ukraine
in 2014 marked the beginning of the
Pax Americana
crisis.
“However, what...
... that the U.S., was clinging to the Cold 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 have no illusion about what is happening right ... ... this is our direct message to the U.S. and the Western countries.
CGTN: The joint statement stressed the need to resolve the Ukraine crisis "through peace talks." Russia welcomes the constructive proposals set forth in China's Position on the ...
Russia and China fully understand they must stick together to fend off Washington, because if one falls the other is on its own
Chinese ... ... technology war, resulting in a confrontation between Washington and Beijing.
Last year, Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine, seeking to eliminate the threat from what many in Moscow saw as the
“land-based US-armed and -controlled aircraft ...
... interest. When Global Times reporter Bai Yunyi (GT) traveled to Moscow this week to cover Xi's visit, she interviewed Andrey Kortunov (Kortunov), academic director of the Russian International Affairs Council, who shared his views on issues surrounding China-Russia relations, the Ukraine crisis, and challenges that the world is facing today.
GT: What do you expect from the Chinese President's visit to Russia? How will this visit affect China-Russia relations?
Kortunov:
This trip will be very important for the Russian side, especially ...
A View into the Future
Nobody has any doubts that what is happening now in Ukraine is not simply a regional conflict but a test for the current international hierarchy. Predictions of the outcome would ... ... earlier centuries (for example, the United States taking over from Britain) will not help today. It just will not work.
In theory, China should be the next nation at the helm, but there are several concurrent obstacles to that ever happening. First, the current ...
The new emphasis on China will not change the US position on Ukraine, but it might affect the foreign policy discourse in Washington
Foreign policy matters seldom set the US midterm election agenda. The midterm elections of 2022 were no exception from this general rule: American voters turned out to be primarily ...
The Russia-Ukraine conflict is the most radical international political change to date, and the most difficult political choice China has yet faced
When talking about external challenges for China–Russia relations, we should first clarify what they mean given the current political situation. These challenges can be considered from different perspectives.
At the ...