By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) The visit of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India between December 15 and 17 generated much euphoria in India and across Asia. China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world and their growing importance in international affairs is becoming increasingly […]
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The Yuan’s Future Role in the Global Financial System
Alexander Salitski (Russia) The planned December 15 opening of the rouble-yuan trading in Russia is a symbolic and potentially historical event. It reflects tectonic shifts in the world’s economy and politics and accordingly promises a transformation of the global financial architecture. At the moment China’s contribution to the global economy […]
China and US: a Clash of Interests
Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) Two events which had been anticipated for quite long took place in the U.S. shortly before the G20 summit in Seoul. On 2 November the Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives, and on 3 November the U.S. Federal Reserve announced that it would pump […]
China and India Are Radically Changing the World Situation
Mikhail Khazin (Russia) The idea of “divide and conquer” is very simple. Someone owns a unique resource and arranges an intense competition for access to it. US domination has been based on a very simple resource—access to demand by US citizens—which lets those who have it reap enormous profits. By […]
Yuan, Dollar, and the Future of Global Leadership
Elena Pustovoitova (Russia) The US Congress finally ran out of patience after years of coercing China into the yuan appreciation and passed a bill authorizing the US Chamber of Commerce to slap punitive duties on Chinese imports. The very next day Beijing responded by propelling the yuan to the dollar […]
The Sufferings of a Chinaman in China
Konstantin PENZEV (Russia) If someone had asked me a month ago, “Who Is Liu Xiaobo?” I would have answered: “I don’t know, but judging by the name, he’s probably Chinese.” And if someone had asked me a month ago, “What is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded for?” I’d have said: […]
A Nobel Peace Prize Awarded for the Collapse of China
Kirill Govorov (Russia) “Si vis pacem, para bellum”—if you wish peace, prepare for war. Apparently, the jokers on the Royal committee in Norway are guided by that ancient adage as time after time they award the Nobel Peace Prize to political and social figures whose contribution to world peace is […]
US Dollar vs. Yuan: Reasons Behind the Conflict
Alexander SALITZKI (Russia) Debates between the US and China over the valuation of the yuan are currently gathering momentum. A new campaign of pressure on Beijing is initiated by the US Congress which proposed a bill authorizing the government to slap duties on China’s imports based on the view that […]
The Uyghur Project
The bloody riots in China’s autonomous regions (the Tibet and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regions) that broke out during 2008-2009 invariably produced an international reaction from Western governments, human rights organizations, and ethnic and Western nongovernmental civic organizations. They reveal a clear-cut tendency towards consolidation of activities by Tibetan and Uyghur […]
BRIC: Illusion or Reality
Andrei VOLODIN (Russia) Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria has distinguished “tectonic shifts” in the world’s economics and politics that divide the last 500 years into three unequal stages: (1) the rise of the West, which began in the 15th century and saw a “dramatic” acceleration at the end of the 18th century […]
China Will Inevitably Extend Its Sphere of Influence
David Babayan (Armenia) The failure of isolationism One way or another, all components of China’s national power motivate it to expand its sphere of influence in such strategically important regions as Central Asia, the Far East and Southeast Asia. China has been a great nation throughout virtually all of its […]
China and India: Partners and Rivals
Andrey Volodin (Russia) Relations between China and India, the two most populous countries in the world, are marked by a complex and shifting combination of cooperation and rivalry. The complexity reflects the history of their geopolitical interaction and their positions in the world economy and international relations In analyzing Sino-Indian […]
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