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Ian Bond: EU Is Always Open to Dialogue with Russia, but It All Depends on the Terms

... and on some of the activities of Russian intelligence services in the West. Those are difficult issues, but there are also a number of areas where we still have things we can and have to talk about. Recently Bloomberg reported that the US is weighing China’s currency pact as a part of the partial trade deal. How does the EU regard that? There is a paradox in the American approach that, on one hand, the US is in favor of free markets, but on the other hand, they're not in favor of the Yuan moving ...

30.10.2019

A New Era of Arms Control: Myths, Realities and Options

... declined at all. If the U.S. and Russian governments or independent experts have data that suggests otherwise, that would be an interesting subject for discussion. As for deployed strategic nuclear weapons covered by the New START, the U.K., France and China have a total of 500 such weapons, 7 while each of the two superpowers possesses over 2,000. 8 Other states have only intermediate-range and tactical weapons (i.e. those with a flight range of less than 5,500 km). Taking into consideration all ...

28.10.2019

Contradictions of the “Golden Era” in UK–China Relations

... Beijing. In December 2017, UK Export Finance confirmed that it was ready to allocate ₤25 billion as part of the bilateral economic and financial dialogue to support the projects of UK companies as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2016, the United Kingdom was China’s eighth-largest global partner, and its second-largest trade partner in the European Union ( its trade turnover was ₤55 billion ). In 2017, China’s investment in the UK totaled ₤20 billion , and the United Kingdom is the fourth largest importer of Chinese-made goods. In 2018, mutual trade turnover reached ₤63.4 billion ...

19.04.2019

Possible International “Package Solution” Formats on the Balkans Issue

... concerned more with the policies dictated to them by an escalation of tensions between regional players. Present-day situation The European Union offered all the Balkan peoples a so-called “European future”. The political elites and the population of the ... ... assure their influence on the pan-European processes as well as strengthen their positions in the global confrontation. Russia, China, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, which are accumulating more and more influence in the region, taken separately, are not so powerful....

18.01.2019

Russia in the Balkans

... ideological influence of other important actors in the region, including new ones, has grown significantly. These actors are primarily China, but also Turkey and several Middle Eastern states. The presence of many actors with diverging interests in the fragmented ... ... means a loss of standing in southeast Europe, which will limit room for action in the Mediterranean. That will result in the European Union and NATO exerting even greater pressure on the Transcaucasian states and Belarus. The loss of the Balkans will ...

13.01.2019

China–UK Investment Cooperation: Life After Brexit

... alienate strategic partners from among non-European states. On the other hand, the new government will conduct a policy of a more active and zealous protection of its national security interests, using the independence gained after withdrawing from the European Union. Brexit could lead to a radical change in the balance of power on the United Kingdom’s domestic market and in the geographic and sectoral structure of trade and investment flows. Relevant changes could also affect China, one of the most dynamic investors in the UK economy. China’s Expansionist Investment Policy China is still the world’s third-largest investor behind the United States and Japan. In 2015, the overall amount of China’s foreign direct investments ...

27.09.2016

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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