In July-August, 2024 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and Grandview Institution (Beijing, China) held a series of work meeting to negotiate the architecture of a joint project, scheduled for 2024–2025
In July-August, 2024 Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) and Grandview Institution (Beijing,...
... United States, South Korea, and Japan emphasizing space infrastructure. NATO is also increasing engagement with countries in the notional Indo-Pacific region. At the same time, in the rhetoric and documents of the United States and some of its allies, Russia, China, Iran and the DPRK are increasingly often appearing in a bundle as a kind of “quartet of evil.” They (together with Belarus) are mentioned in the declaration of the NATO summit in Washington in the context of supporting Russia during the Special ...
... stability does not work.
There needs to be democracy in international relations
and a platform where voices of countries are heard regardless of their size or strength.
Being the only powers in the world capable of challenging U.S. hegemony in the region, China and Russia offer an attractive alternative to Middle Eastern countries: one which does not leave them in a dilemma of having to choose between sacrificing their prosperity or security.
Increased Chinese and Russian footprint in the region means the U.S. can ...
... rationale than economic
On July 11, 2024, on the margins of the NATO Summit in Washington, the US, Canada and Finland announced a new trilateral consortium—the Icebreaker Collaboration Effort, or ICE Pact—with an explicit intention to challenge Russia and China in icebreaker construction and deployment. It is expected that by the end of 2024 the three nations will turn ICE into a detailed business plan with financial projections, binding commitments and specific deadlines. The pact aims to produce a fleet ...
... “dialogue with all potential participants in this future security system” was
listed
as the first principle.
Potential “dialogue partners” on these issues obviously also include India, which is designated in the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation as one of the main (along with China) partners on the Eurasian continent. A delicate point here is that India is not in a vacuum, being an integral part of a complex subregional security architecture marked by military and political confrontation between two regional powers (India ...
... all the other challenges to the continent, including climate change, are likely to be gradually overshadowed by the threat of potential conflict between nuclear powers. Equal and indivisible security is a conceptual response to this threat. The joint Russia–China statement following Vladimir Putin's visit to China in May 2024
says
that “the parties believe the nuclear powers should uphold global strategic stability, adhere to the principle of equal and indivisible security, and should not encroach on ...
... have contributed to this growth more than any other extra-regional player, diversifying their trade and economic ties with Central Asian countries, demonstrating an interest in strengthening their “sustainable security.” At the same time, the fact Russia, China, and most of the countries in the region are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization allows the SCO to be viewed as a platform for conducting multilateral dialogue on the issue.
The first step towards developing the appropriate support ...
... under the leadership of Western countries and primarily in their interests. Now the situation in and around Asia has changed significantly. First, general economic openness itself is gradually eroding under the pressure of Western sanctions against China and Russia. Second, in the context of many major military-political crises involving the great powers, the preservation of international institutions, which in previous years acted as the main agents of political globalisation, has been called into question....
... mutual benefit. The development of Russian- Chinese cooperation is expected to cause concern among Western nations and their allies in the Asia-Pacific, as they perceive it as a threat to the regional balance of power that used to exist in the world.
Russia and China are increasing their interaction by tackling mutual issues and, at the same time, are guided by their national interests in their approaches to pressing issues on the international agenda, demonstrating the maturity of today’s interstate dialogue ...
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