... Staff and some of the brightest independent scholars working on various dimensions of the vast international security agenda.
Andrey Kortunov:
Decoding China: GSI and Beijing's International Role
The event was a graphic illustration of the breadth of China's engagement in international security cooperation. According to General Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Chinese Central Military Commission, who delivered the keynote speech at the opening of the forum, today China participates in more than 600 international conventions....
... mostly not presented in the form of separate structured documents, but can only be reconstructed analytically by systematizing certain statements of government officials and their comments. All of them were proposed by so-called neutral countries like China, Brazil, African states and Indonesia, that is by the countries that are not directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict and think of themselves as unbiased players.
Meanwhile, there is another ten-point “peace plan”, proposed by Ukrainian President ...
The recognition of interdependence between security and development suggests that China is likely to become more active in global and regional security matters than it has been ever before
The Global Security Initiative (GSI) was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in April of 2022. Predictably, the initiative was brushed off ...
... order, then there might be fewer risks for it. The Western allies could concentrate all their power on countering Moscow. But the spread of problems in other directions seriously complicates things. Resources have to be wasted not only on containing China, but also on putting out fires where they supposedly shouldn’t have broken out. With a high probability, Washington will be able to provide Israel with significant military and diplomatic assistance, limiting the next outbreak of conflict. But ...
The growing US-Japanese-South Korean military cooperation inevitably leads to stronger China-Russia-North Korea ties
The Russian-North Korean negotiations this month have provoked a lot of hype, particularly in the West. It is assumed by the West that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's trip might indicate a profound change in Moscow's ...
... Brief #47 / 2023
The Middle East has been clearly showing signs that is it changing. It would not be an overstatement to say that a lot of what is happening now would have been unthinkable just a couple of years ago.
The greatest of these changes is the China-mediated rapprochement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Given that these countries are regional “centers of power”, their new and improved relations may help reduce regional tensions in certain countries ...
Like Russia, India is likely to resist the evolution of the international system towards a rigid U.S.-China bipolarity since such an evolution would inevitably deprive New Delhi of the freedom of manoeuvring that it enjoys now
Recently there have been many speculations about the likely future of India-US relations and their impact on the Indian posture ...
... in this role and predictably got a very warm reception in Moscow. Li had a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This trip attracted a lot of international attention, especially since it took place less than a month after a historic Russia-China summit in March of this year. Most of the Western media focused on the alleged China's supplies of the military hardware to Russia. Just a couple of days before Li 's trip to Moscow, a leaked US government document suggested that China had approved ...
China has effectively coped with its role of facilitator, but now the country will have to enforce the agreements reached
In March 2023, seven years after diplomatic relations were severed, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the Islamic Republic ...
... 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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