Russian-Chinese Crisis Alliance in the Balkans
Yulia Petrovskaya on how Moscow and Beijing confront the “collective West” in BiH and Kosovo
Russia – China
A United NATO stance on the China-Russia challenge?
Natasha Kuhrt and Marcin Kaczmarski on NATO’s positioning towards Moscow and Beijing
Belgrade’s vaccine bet on China
Yulia Petrovskaya on how Russia is losing the battle to vaccinate Serbia to China
Russia and India: a fraught partnership
Lyubov Glazunova wonders whether Russia-India relations can withstand opposing views on China, the US, and Pakistan
In search of new partners in space
Pavel Luzin on whether Russia can rely on China and India in the field of space exploration
How China Helped Russia Weather COVID and Why It’s Not Necessarily Good News
Nicholas Trickett on how COVID-19 has been rewriting economic orthodoxy across the globe, but Russia’s Austrian School economists have yet to get the memo
Nord Stream 2 and more sanctions: the endgame begins
Ivan Tkachev looks at whether sanctions could bring the Nord Stream-2 story to an end
Russia’s Far East in the shadow of the Asian pivot
Sebastian Hoppe on why there remains much to be done to make the Russian Far East benefit from pivoting to Asia
Towards a Sino-Russian entente?
Michael Kofman sees ties deepening between China and Russia. But there are limits to a defence pact based on few joint objectives besides their shared sense of confrontation with the United States.
How China’s slowdown could catch up with Russia
In recent decades, writes Vladislav Inozemtsev, Russia’s economy, society, and geopolitical standing have become prisoners to China’s success — to a far greater extent than the authorities and ordinary citizens are prepared to recognise
The G7 In Biarritz: Warmer to Russia, Colder to China
Anton Barbashin digests the reaction of Russian experts to the recent G7 summit in Biarritz, taking stock of Macron’s talk of better ties with Russia as a thinly veiled means to forestall a rising China
The Politics of Chinese Loans in Russia
Max Hess on the growing financial dependence of Russia on China