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Some of the pending tasks to be addressed after the summit look quite challenging. For instance, the two sides have to proceed with the ongoing transition to national currencies in bilateral trade. Currently, about half of the trade between Russia and China is carried out in rubles and renminbi. However, if one excludes energy, the share of national currencies in the bilateral trade appears to be much less impressive. The reliance on the U.S. dollar as the prime means of payments makes many Chinese ...
... Partnership of Coordination for the New Era, which publicly mentioned the U.S. seven times. For example, the two sides pointed out that the U.S., was clinging to the Cold War mentality, and destabilizing the world for its unilateral gain. How do we make of China and Russia's frequent mention of the U.S.?
Sergey Sanakoev:
Russia and China have no illusion about what is happening right now in the world. We declared that after the World War II, only the United States of America opened more than 70 military ...
Russia and China fully understand they must stick together to fend off Washington, because if one falls the other is on its own
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow is not just symbolic as his first foreign excursion after being re-elected to an unprecedented ...
... interest. When Global Times reporter Bai Yunyi (GT) traveled to Moscow this week to cover Xi's visit, she interviewed Andrey Kortunov (Kortunov), academic director of the Russian International Affairs Council, who shared his views on issues surrounding China-Russia relations, the Ukraine crisis, and challenges that the world is facing today.
GT: What do you expect from the Chinese President's visit to Russia? How will this visit affect China-Russia relations?
Kortunov:
This trip will be very important ...
The state visit vividly demonstrates the importance of China-Russia strategic partnership and how strong their partnership is, which also sends a particular message to the U.S. and their allies
Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia will largely have symbolic meaning, confirming Russia's priority ...
The meeting between the leaders of China and Russia will present an opportunity to build on the strong momentum in boosting bilateral economic cooperation
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Russia to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to feature a wide range of ...
... so-called world majority corresponds to Russian or Western expectations, the very fact of its participation in international affairs has become quite obvious, just like the lack of intention of many countries to stand under the banner of the United States, China or Russia in the future confrontation between the great powers. However, this does not negate the need to strive to understand the motives and driving factors of such a significant and influential group of states as a structural feature of modern ...
... 2022 and formally elaborated in late February 2023.
Experts from different countries discussed the philosophy and rationale of the concept, its potential efficiency in countering traditional and non-traditional global threats as well as its meaning for China’s foreign policy in the changing world order in general.
Julia Melnikova, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the event.
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... Fudan University held a videoconference meeting to discuss plans for the implementation of joint projects in 2023.
Traditionally the priority area for cooperation is RIAC, IIS Fudan University, and ICCA RAS joint work on the annual report of Russia-China Dialogue, ongoing since 2015.
The meeting was attended by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director; Feng Yujun, Deputy Director of Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, Director of the Institute of Russian and Central Asian Studies ...
... comparable might, once the latter stopped playing at giveaway
The story of the Chinese Automatic Drifting Balloon (ADB) violating the U.S. airspace in late January–early February 2023 will be a symbolic marker for a new phase of deterioration in the US-China relations.
The relations were rapidly eroding throughout 2022 and early 2023. In some aspects, U.S.-China relations in 2022 evoked obvious associations with U.S.-Russian relations in 2021. While trying to engage in cooperation with Beijing on certain ...