... foremost about the future of Eurasia.
RIAC and VIF-India Report "70th Anniversary of Russia-India Relations: New Horizons of Privileged Partnership"
The approach further... ... objectives of Beijing's policy towards neighbouring countries (the Peripheral Diplomacy of China). The approach can also be seen in the advancement of various multilateral continental... ... Australia, and New Zealand, the traditional maritime allies of the United States in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Unlike in the case of the American Indo-Pacific, the Community...
... Dostoyevsky Library.
Alexander Gabuev
, Director of the Russia in the Asian-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center, and Igor Denisov, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies at MGIMO University, gave a lecture titled “Russia, China and the US in the Asia-Pacific — is cooperation possible?” Having considered the economic and political importance of the Asia-Pacific, both experts focused on the current state of relations between Russia, China and the US, and offered ideas about future developments ...
... fundamentally new solutions to the accumulated problems.
Where Does the Power Come From?
It is quite obvious that the tone of Russia’s foreign policy in 2017 will be dictated by the country’s relations with the United States. Donald Trump’s victory ... ... government is not only hostile towards the United States, but it is also leaning towards closer cooperation with Beijing. Trump views China as a strategic challenge. After all, it will be extremely difficult for the United States to keep hold of its international ...
... than a free trade agreement. It also includes highly controversial provisions on the protection of
intellectual property
and the subjugation of national laws to
transnational tribunals
.
Notably absent from negotiations over the TPP are two major Asia-Pacific powers: China and Russia. The TPP will later be presented to China and Russia as a fait accompli with basic rules already set by the United States and its allies. The same trick was played against China and Russia in the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). ...
... United States has shifted too. An
influential American magazine
began to argue that China’s inclusion in the TPP project is in the United States’ national interest... ... the last APEC session in Indonesia of the idea to create a Free Trade Area for the Asia-Pacific Region (FTAAPR) in November 2014 contrasted with the failed attempt to... ... integration courses. Moreover, in its view,
the TTP could form the core of FTAAPR
.
Russia's pivot to the East
The multidirectional trends in world politics and in the...
... the region and drive Southeast Asia toward Indonesia and Vietnam. Accordingly, it would help to more evenly distribute influence within the ASEAN and bring about a new nonaligned bloc supported by Russia.
Viewed through the prism of the evolving U.S.-China confrontation in Asia-Pacific, Russia appears to be the world's largest
swing state
, with Vietnam playing a similar role in the regional dimension. This makes the two share a common agenda. Within this environment, Vietnam may become the first country to enter the Russian orbit of ...
On September 19, 2014, RIAC President Igor Ivanov and Director General Andrey Kortunov met Chinese Ambassador in Russia LI Hui. The meeting was also attended by Mao Wang Chun, Chinese Embassy Counselor, Yu Xiaonan, Embassy First Secretary, and Lyudmila Filippova, RIAC Program Manager.
The participants emphasized the particular character of Russia-China relations and talked about the need to advance the dialogue in key areas of bilateral cooperation. Besides, the parties touched upon the most significant issues of the global agenda.
RIAC leaders informed the Chinese Embassy on their initiatives ...
... leaders, attractiveness of Russians and Russian lifestyle, account of national specifics for bettering Russian image in various Chinese social groups, as well as other issues.
The presentation was followed by a discussion of Russian soft power tools in China and Asia-Pacific, interest to Russian culture and language, Russian education, and practical proposals for making an unbiased image of Russia in Asia moderated by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev.
Dr. Vladimir Petrovsky, Academic Secretary for Public Relations at RAS Institute ...
... significant conventional arms reduction agreement in the world. As we know, Russia and China did not negotiate particular numbers of troops, tanks, artillery pieces, armored... ... today the border is drastically demilitarized and the probability of a trans-border Russian-Chinese conflict is as low as that of a US – Canadian military clash across... ... ‘soft’ arrangement that it has.
Another important task that we face in the Asia-Pacific region today is the task of merging our respective development and security...
... implications. The West has put the entire system of international security into question and the interaction between Russia and China is called upon to counteract the Western domination in the world. In general, I think it will be very important.
Dmitry ... ... should not underestimate the importance of the visit in the face of toughening sanctions. It is important to demonstrate that Russia can develop cooperation with the East. So far, turning east and trading profitably with the Asia-Pacific countries was seen just as a latent option. Its $400 billion trade with the European Union made it impossible for ...
