... a digital latecomer. The Global Gateway initiatives that were announced in Samarkand in 2022 mention enhancing green data centers, personal data protection, and the telecoms sector in the region.
Significantly, the projects of the EU could leverage China in Central Asia, and provide alternative access to hardware and software technologies, education and training capacities, and the models of digital standards. Additionally, the Digital Silk Way initiated by AzerTelecom and Caucasus Online of NEQSOL Holding means ...
... contraindications.
The development of ties with Asia is complicated by the fact that, from a geopolitical point of view, Russia is seriously separated from the bulk of Asian states. It is separated from Asia to the south by the vast Islamic belt of Central Asia and Afghanistan, to the southeast by gigantic China, and to the northeast by traditionally hostile Japan.
Thus, the development of ties between Russia and the rest of Asia requires the creation of special logistical capabilities.
Asia itself, until the last 40-50 years, did not represent a significant ...
... (CBDC) under the auspices of the Chinese Central Bank.[8]
The downfall of Western arrogance
Like Germany’s historical East, including the territories of Prussia and Silesia, the world’s East, Asia, has often been seen as a backward region. Many Asian countries, like China, have only been good for serving as an “extended workbench.”
Everything has been measured against the “Western community of values” and evaluated and devalued with an unbearable arrogance – be it people, culture, or political and social ...
... Moscow in 2022, it is Asia that looks to us as the most important buyer of traditional Russian exports, a source of technological products and a high-priority trade and economic partner in general. Many have even said that the development of ties with China and Asia should “replace” for Russia so-called traditional partnerships in the West.
In other words, the conflict, which is in fact a hybrid war, between Russia and the US and Europe, can be seen as a condition that will make the “turn to the East” ...
... US and the EU among the advanced economies. This trans-Atlantic partnership has served as the backbone for growth and innovation among the advanced economies in the preceding decades. In this respect, a closer economic partnership between India and China would redound significantly to development areas such as Eurasian connectivity, the growth in the regional partners of the two countries, greater scope for joint innovation projects and the launching of South-South platforms in the financial sector.
For Russia the Global South is a rapidly expanding market that ...
... director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and chair of the Center’s Foreign and Security Policy Program.
It is said that the 21st century is the century of China and Asia. How is Russia dealing with the rise of China and Asia? Is there a “pivot” toward China/Asia in Russia’s foreign policy and global priorities?
Russia has had to recognize that in the East, as well as in the West, it is now flanked by a power with a superior economic strength, a source of investment, and a modernization resource. Hence,...
... Republic of Korea, Japan and Singapore became observers to the Arctic Council.
The Report examines non-regional actors’ interests in the Arctic, their policy frameworks in the region and principal areas of Arctic studies. Authors also explore the Asian states’ positions on the international status of the Arctic. Specific attention is given to the prospects of cooperation between Russia and India, China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore in developing the region.
Authors:
A.N. Fedorovsky, Dr. of Economics (Part 3); L.V. Filippova (Foreword); T.A. Makhmutov, Ph.D. in Political Science (Foreword); H. Nadarajah (Part 5); V.E. Petrovsky, Dr. of Political ...
... fundamental principles of the present international order. But Beijing does so much more intelligently than Moscow.
In May this year Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov announced that Russia will participate in joint naval drills with its Asia-Pacific allies (most likely China, among others) in the South China Sea in May 2016. How do you see Russia's potential participation playing into the overall dynamics of the region?
There always has been a Russian naval presence in Asia-Pacific, which Moscow now intends ...
... to maintain the balance of power, or continue to stay indifferent and out of the way?
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