... Kortunov:
The World in 2035: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
For achieving its ambitious economic and social development goals, China needs a friendly and stable international environment. The communique makes a direct reference to the already proposed Global ... ... maturation of the Chinese social and economic system should enable Beijing to make an even greater contribution to building a truly multipolar world and advancing universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.
Almost 100 years ago, former U.S. ...
... inevitable multipolarity is an obvious truth. This state of affairs is not typical only of Russia. In the meantime, both groups omit some important details that were clearly pronounced in 2018, when the picture became more complex.
Igor Ivanov:
Russia, China and the New World Order
It is difficult to argue against the idea of multipolarity if we look at it from the realistic (neo-realistic) point of view. In Russia the school of realism and its derivatives has remained the most influential up to now ...
... of seeing new examples of Alexander’s magnanimity and Metternich’s insight today are slim. To paraphrase Pushkin, we can say that “political populism and multipolarity are two things incompatible.”
The “Gangsters” and “Molls” of the Multipolar World
Andrey Kortunov:
China and the US in Asia: Four Scenarios for the Future
A famous cliché in international relations (attributed to a variety of authors, from Otto von Bismarck to Stanley Kubrick) states that on the global stage, large states act as gangsters and small ...
... signed following the talks between President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping said that both countries would “promote international relations of a new type based on the principles of mutual ... ... the building of a community of a single fate for humanity, as well as facilitate the establishment of a more just and rational multipolar world order on the basis of equal participation of all nations in global governance, adherence to international law,...
... Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, are coming to terms with the “
Sunset of Greater Europe
”. Some political circles in Moscow have their sights set instead on a “
Greater Asia
”, from St Petersburg to Shanghai. Massive deals with China, like an estimated
$2 billion to supply Beijing with advanced SU-35 fighter jets
, are illustrative of this broader shift in Russia’s outlook, away from Europe and towards Asia.
Russia’s about-face is largely a response to the breakdown ...
... exclusion of Russia from leading industrial countries would result into an almost unresolved conflict between Russia and NATO nations. The recent G-7 Summit, if seen in the perspective of bilateral economic and strategic developments between Russia and China, was expected to become instrumental for mounting extra-ordinary pressure on Russia. It was widely believed that this meeting was due to re-initiate the process of bi-polarizing world. President Vladimir Putin said in an interview before the inception ...
