... incorrect.
Revising cultural norms
has become a cultural norm in and of itself, deepening divisions in modern polarized societies, primarily in the U.S., but also in Old Europe [Semenenko 2023: 27-35].
Yang Xiaotong:
“Light of the World” No More. China and Russia Should Help Restore Multipolarity in the Middle East
Another curious phenomenon is associated with the new agenda. In the 20
th
century, the left championed progress, advocating faster economic growth, rapid technological advancement and better social welfare. Now the ideas ...
... Cold War”. Yet again,
China and the U.S. are not in the same weight division
; the U.S. outclasses China in almost every category. China has benefited immensely from globalization and cannot return to being a hermit kingdom once again. The only way China could survive the American containment is to restore multipolarity in the world.
In the context of the Middle East, China believes that the main reason why it is caught in a ceaseless cycle of conflict
is because external powers are interfering and attempting to shape the region in its own image
. The ...
... can a world order be established in this situation?
The most popular idea is multipolarity. But multipolarity is not an order. Multipolarity is a certain reality. Moreover, the theoretical literature is increasingly questioning the relevance of poles as ... ... invented in America in the 1970s, but today the situation has changed.
Under these circumstances, the advantage of Russia and China is that our two nations are indispensable and necessary links in international relations, as the history of the previous ...
... touches on the Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor (VCMC) that was rechristened as the Eastern Maritime Corridor (EMC) last year. These Eurasian connectivity corridors ensure that Russia has enough options not to become disproportionately dependent on China in the economic sense and therefore risk the Sino-U.S. bi-multipolarity scenario that was described.
Furthermore, the VCMC’s evolution into the EMC could expand into the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) to provide a safe way of facilitating Indian-European trade without having to risk transit through the ...
The hope for a new type of international relations based on mutual benefit, unfortunately, is unlikely to materialise in the foreseeable future
The People's Republic of China has appointed a new foreign minister. Qin Gang, a career diplomat who went through all the key stages of the PRC’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has become the head of the Foreign Ministry. His predecessor Wang Yi was appointed head of the Office ...
The European-Chinese diagonal in the geometry of world politics is no less important than U.S.-China, Russian-American or Russian-Chinese relations
European-Chinese relations have been on pause since the end of 2020. The politicisation of interaction, caused both by objective disproportions in the development of trade and investment partnerships,...
... geostrategic position of having stakes in both blocs, which explains why it closely cooperates with them in order to advance its goal of becoming a third pole of influence in the bi-multipolar transitional phase of the global systemic transition to multipolarity. Regarding the Western bloc, it shares these countries’ concerns about China’s rise, especially considering its summer 2020 clashes with the People’s Republic over their disputed Himalayan border. As for the non-Western bloc, it agrees with Russia, China, and others that international relations must diversify from their ...
... present analysis attempted to compellingly make the case that this emerging scenario will represent a much more complex version of multipolarity than the current one. Trump’s U.S.-Chinese trade war, which in turn provoked the new Cold War between these two ... ... recalibrate America’s grand strategy away from its hitherto unsuccessful attempts to simultaneously “contain” both Russia and China. The resultant outcome could fundamentally transform the geostrategic situation in Eurasia, both by providing the U.S. with ...
... triple attribute of bipolarity is an important theoretical presupposition in the analysis of bipolarization and a logical starting point for understanding the cognitive and theoretical differences between China, Russia and the West on this issue. In China, there is a tradition to emphasize the material dimension of bipolarity (or multipolarity). For the Chinese, the international structure has a natural attribute initially. Whether it is unipolar, bipolar or multipolar, these structures merge as a pure reflection of existing asymmetries in international players’ material potentials....
... recognize and accept the bipolarity. In fact, not accepting China as an equal power is the main reason for the conflict between China and the United States. Actually, what the United States is pursuing is to prevent the emergence of bipolarity, and prevent China from rising to a power equal to the United States. In other words, the United States will be happy neither with multipolarity nor with bipolarity. Thus what the United States is insisting on is the unipolarity.
In this regard, the current bilateral relations between China and the United States is significantly different from that between the United States and the ...
