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Furthermore, strictly speaking, the Cold War has never ended in Asia, like it was the case in Europe in 1989. The main reason for the latter difference was evident—socialist countries in Asia (the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) never collapsed, imploded or converted to Western-style capitalism like socialist states in Eastern and Central Europe, including the Soviet Union, did. On top of that, in Asia traditionally there ...
Washington intends to cash in on the topic of alleged military-technological cooperation between Russia and the DPRK or China and the DPRK, in order to build anti-Russian and anti-Chinese sentiments in the Republic of Korea and Japan
In foreign media and academic articles, they increasingly often refer to a “Beijing-Moscow-Pyongyang axis” that is emerging in Northeast Asia (NEA). Under these circumstances, Western authors believe, the U.S. and its ...
... started with an online round table “Strategic Situation in the Asia Pacific: Threats and Opportunities for Russia and the Republic of Korea”, placing the bilateral relations into a broader regional context. During the main session Ekaterina Koldunova,... ... and African Studies and Acting Director of the ASEAN Centre, MGIMO University, and Anastasia Pyatachkova, Deputy Head of the Asia-Pacific Department at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies, Higher School of Economics, spoke ...
On July 18, 2016, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov met with RoK Ambassador in Moscow Park Ro-byug to discuss a variety of issues pertaining to Russia’s policy in Asia-Pacific, among them:
— Historical, economic and strategic significance of the fastest developing territories and Russia’s New Eastern Policy (Pivot to Asia).
— Steps to be taken by Moscow to bring into balance future cooperation ...