On July 1–3, 2023, Beijing hosted the 11th World Peace Forum. For the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic the event was held totally in person
On July 1–3, 2023, Beijing hosted the 11th World Peace Forum. For the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic the event was held totally in person. The organizers included Tsinghua University and the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs. Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) has been taking part in the Forum...
... Africa is the world’s youngest continent.[1] Leveraging its population pidend, Africa has a unique opportunity to transform in the coming decades – Russian and Chinese support will be key to success.
Source: Rosatom
Indeed, for more than a decade, Chinas has been delivering world-class infrastructure, while Russia supplied Africa with the raw materials and foodstuffs its expanding economic base required, providing 30% of the continent’s wheat.[2]
Recently, Russia and Beijing promulgated compatible ...
... research workshop on technological leadership in the transformation of the world order.
During the workshop, leading experts discussed key issues of global technological leadership in the new environment and considered the development policy of the USA, China, the EU, and India in the field of innovative technologies against the backdrop of growing competition.
Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General, and Sergey Afontsev, Deputy Director for Research at the Primakov Institute of International Relations ...
... sessions and thematic panels
I've finally got back to Beijing after a four-year break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Four-year is not a lot of time in the long history of the city, but some recent changes are hard to miss. For the first time I entered China through a new gateway—the breathtaking Beijing Daxing International Airport. Though the capital never aspired to become a city of super-tall buildings, the Central Business District has nevertheless enriched itself with several state-of-the-art ...
Even as China was able to take advantage of Russia’s isolation and get access to the Vladivostok port after 163 years, Russia is keen that India expands its presence at the port, said people aware of the matter.
Russia recently awarded China the right to run ...
... tries to dictate to other states how to solve certain security and development problems. The international community does not and will not accept such Western rules that seek to divide the world based on ideologies and values and to eliminate Russia and China as geopolitical competitors.
Before our eyes, the arms race is gathering momentum, offensive capabilities are increasing, the system of arms control treaties is being dismantled. All this inevitably leads to an increase in distrust, to the loss ...
Speech at the 11th Beijing World Peace Forum
Speech at the 11th Beijing World Peace Forum
The Non-Proliferation Treaty was open for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970. The Treaty has been signed by the overwhelming majority of UN member states and should be considered as a very significant accomplishment of the international community. Despite many gloomy predictions, over the last half a century the proliferation process was quite slow: on top of the five recognized nuclear states...
On June 26–27, 2023, the VIII International Conference of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) “Russia and China: Cooperation in the New Era” was held in Beijing
On June 26–27, 2023, the VIII International Conference of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) “Russia and China: Cooperation ...
... elites from the United States, Western Europe, he became (and still is) one of the most informed political scientists in Russia. In an interview to
BUSINESS Online
, he told us whether nuclear war is possible, whether we will become a satellite of China, and why some in the Russian government are against designing a new ideology.
— The special military operation [in Ukraine] has been going on for more than a year. During this period, in your opinion, have any dramatic changes occurred in Russia ...
... exception: the global arms industry. As it is with all wars, it is neither about democracy nor human rights, but about power and gaining space and economic profit.
At $2,240 billion, global military spending reached a new high in 2022, up 3.7%. The US, China and Russia alone accounted for 56% of global military spending. On a year-on-year basis, military spending in Europe evinced the highest increase in more than 30 years,[1] with Finland up 36%, Lithuania up 27% and Poland up 11%, among others.
The ...
