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Russian and Chinese experts discussed current international events and political trends, and exchanged their views on the key challenges for Russia and China in new circumstances On September 15, 2025, a delegation from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) visited the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). Russian and Chinese experts discussed current international events ...
... that relations are transitioning to a new framework, and the prospect of entering the next stage, already represent a break in the pattern, given what has transpired over the last three and a half years. What will characterise the next transition in international relations, and what trump cards do its key participants hold? Ivan Timofeev: Russia and China in the Era of Trade Wars and Sanctions The Putin-Trump summit drew a line under the reality that emerged after the start of Russia’s special military operation in February 2022. It had a number of features. First, a high level of consolidation ...
... (or polycentric) world order [ 1 ] was first coined by Academician Yevgeny Primakov in 1996 [Primakov 1996]. Like everything new, it was not immediately accepted, but ultimately became a significant contribution to both domestic and world theory of international relations, offering a compelling alternative to Western approaches, particularly the one proposed in Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations [Huntington 1993]. It informed the idea of trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and India, implemented by Primakov and later embodied in the BRICS group. By now, the idea of multipolarity has been recognized in global political science, has entered the conceptual framework and the language of international diplomacy and is ...
... optimal balance of allies and rivals will be able to conserve resources, and if confrontation is inevitable, will be able to withstand it, emerge victorious, and make use of the results of victory. Ivan Timofeev: Trump or Harris: Does it Matter for China? The current state of international relations demonstrates a steady tendency towards the multiplication of deterrence tasks among the three key global centres of military power—the United States, China and Russia. Each of them has an increasing number of opponents. Moreover,...
In the modern world, only two countries can be distinguished which combine both significant material potential and their own political philosophy: the US and China In the modern science of international relations, defining the essential features of modern superpowers has remained a bone of contention. What makes a true superpower stand above the rest? Is there a universal set of traits that distinguishes a few leaders from many outsiders?...
... it to more sanctions are inevitably making Russia essentially the main driver behind new international structures from which the West is either absent or exists as a marginal player, although the ideology of these structures is not anti-Western. Here China is Russia’s main partner. In the US view, China’s growth and rapprochement with Russia, which is far from a full-fledged military alliance, represent a challenge. US diplomacy may drive itself into a policy of double deterrence toward ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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