... Huasheng:
Bipolarity and its Relations with Multipolarity and Unipolarity
All these factors taken together raise more and more questions about the trajectory along which the post-COVID world will develop and about China’s global leadership.
Ping-pong diplomacy: a new interpretation
April marked the 50
th
anniversary of ping-pong diplomacy. Official representatives of China and the U.S. discussed its pivotal role in establishing and fostering bilateral contacts. The parties have come a long way since ...
... greater flexibility in their policy, the renunciation of self-imposed restrictions in favor of the freedom to maneuver is becoming a dominant strategy more broadly across the world.
China offers a successful example of gaining operations space through diplomacy. In only a few decades China has reshaped not only its foreign policy but also areas of global economic development. The growth of China’s presence in different parts of the world was accompanied by its transformation into the biggest lender ...
... precedes the eventual multi-polar transition. By and large, the Russian scientific community agrees with the thesis that the world order is in process of transformation from unipolar moment to the post-unipolar condition, but the terms to describe this ... ... approach has changed. What we have followed with apprehension in those days is the putting into practice of the contemporary diplomacy of violence
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exposed by the theorists of compellence. Those who had thought that a world challenge through proxy ...
RD Interview
On the sidelines of a recent Moscow think tank debate, “
Hypocrisy vs. Diplomacy: How Insincerity Undermined the World Order After the Cold War
,”
Russia Direct
sat down with Andrei Kortunov, general director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), to figure out how Russia and the West can get past accusing each other of engaging in double standards ...
... conference.
The participants discussed the Western and Russian approach to the history of NATO expansion, the promotion of democracy as a geopolitical tool, «Color Revolutions» and «Arab Spring», Ukrainian crisis narrative clash, diplomacy and public policy interaction, the role of hacking in discovering secret agendas, and hypocrisy issues in the world politics in terms of Donald Trump’s accession to power in the USA.
The speakers included: Alexander Aksenyonok, Ambassador ...
