... Summit in Brazil has spotlighted the group’s growing influence. Speaking to SFC, Andrey Kortunov, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, described BRICS as a “global laboratory” for innovative cooperation, with China playing a pivotal role.
Kortunov highlighted the group’s shift from political rhetoric to practical initiatives, such as integrating payment systems and tackling energy and food security challenges. China’s technological and financial ...
External political factors may have a growing influence on Russian-Chinese economic relations
Economic relations between Russia and China remain high. Beijing has become Moscow's most important trading partner, and in the context of Western sanctions, it has also become an alternative source of industrial and consumer goods, as well as the largest market for Russian energy and other ...
With the sharp rise in tensions in the Middle East, it is advantageous for China to increase supplies from the north
Rising tensions in the Middle East will accelerate natural gas negotiations between Russia and China, with a decision likely this year, the head of a think-tank that advises the Russian government on China told ...
Wei Wenjing, Master’s degree student, Basic Department of Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
Regan Arthur, Master’s degree student, Basic Department of Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy ...
... trade.
Some see the EU as a model of regional self-containment – a
“garden,”
to quote one of its more misguided recent metaphors. But even Western Europe’s famed unity has relied heavily on continued openness to the US and, to a lesser degree, China. Only with respect to Russia and the Global South has the EU pursued genuine exclusion. Even then, the strategy remains incomplete and largely rhetorical.
The West’s attempt to encircle itself with legal and institutional
“fences”
has created ...
... No. 99 / 2025
Report No. 99 / 2025
The following report focuses on the Middle Eastern policies of extra-regional actors and their transformation in changing conditions. It concentrates on studying the strategies pursued by Russia, the U.S., the EU, China and India in the Middle East. The report also examines how Middle Eastern countries perceive extra-regional actors as they aspire to build pragmatic and balanced relationships with external partners.
Extra-Regional Actors in the Middle East
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... follows the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the era of frequent and deep reductions in nuclear arsenals by major powers in the 1990s and 2000s. A defining characteristic of the new phase, according to American experts, is the growth of China’s nuclear capabilities and the emergence of new nuclear powers (for obvious reasons, with a focus on North Korea developing effective nuclear forces and Iran’s threshold status). As Moscow and Washington cut their nuclear arsenals, NATO allies ...
As China and Russia step into a new chapter of their relations, the global community has reason to look forward with cautious optimism
President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Moscow to attend the Victory Day parade marks a historic moment in China-Russia ...
... societal transformation. The national mobilization of entrepreneurialism—the deliberate and systemic effort to harness and amplify entrepreneurial energy across a nation—has shaped the economic trajectories of global powers like the United States, China, and India. Over the past century, these nations have employed distinct strategies to ignite entrepreneurial ecosystems, often with remarkable success. How was all this achieved before economic theorems were popularised and every politician succumbed ...
The Trump administration will be no more successful in breaking the China-Russia partnership than its predecessor was two years ago
The recent World War II Victory Day celebration in Moscow attracted 27 heads of state as well as numerous prominent politicians and opinion-makers from all over the world, including Europe,...
