On September 14, 2015, Russian International Affairs Council received a delegation of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) headed by Vice Chair of National Peoples' Congress Foreign Affairs Committee Zhao Waige, Chair of the Council of Experts at the Institute for Research and Development of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
On September 14, 2015, Russian International Affairs Council received a delegation of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) headed by Vice Chair of National Peoples' Congress Foreign Affairs Committee Zhao Waige, Chair of the Council of Experts at the Institute for Research and Development of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
In his opening remarks, RIAC President Igor Ivanov stressed that Russian-Chinese relations play a most significant role in the world of today and praised the intensity of the bilateral cooperation. We are witnessing the gradual formation of a polycentric world, where countries act in accordance with their national interests rather than in the obsolete bloc-style mode.
Speaking of the future world order, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov specified that we may expect a confrontation between leading centers of power, i.e. between Russia plus China from the Eurasian side and the United States and Western Europe which lead the Euro-Atlantic alliance. However, such a situation seems hardly optimal and requires new mechanisms for cooperation.
The Russian side was also represented by Chief Researcher of RAS Institute for oriental Studies Vladimir Petrovsky, Head of Russia in Asia-Pacific Program at Moscow Carnegie Center Alexander Gabuyev, Senior Researcher of Institute for International Research at MGIMO-University Igor Denisov, as well as RIAC's Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov and Program Manager Liudmila Filippova.
The CASS team included Director of Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Li Yongquan, Vice Director of Institute of Public Security at Academy for Safe Production Studies Zhou Jianxin, Department Head at CASS Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Xue Fuqi, Deputy Head of Research Management Department at CASS Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies Wang Xiaoquan, and Delegation Head Assistant Chen Qianjun.
The discussants exchanged views on key global and regional challenges, covering the rise of extremism and Islamic radicalism, nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, Korean settlement, Russia-China-USA interaction through the prism of the growing need for expert-level dialogue on international law, as well as expressed their interest to cooperation within joint projects.
RIAC and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Discuss Cooperation
