... level since 2004, with Brent Crude at US$36.05 a barrel as of December 21.
Amidst Russia’s strained relations with the West, and now Turkey as well, Chinese investment has become more important to the Russian economy. But can Russia count on China amidst difficult times? The market speaks for itself. According to an investment research by Sberbank CIB, China’s share of foreign direct investment in Russia increased from 1 percent in 2013 to 5.6 percent in 2014. But analysts of that research ...
Even under the regime of the strategic partnership China can hardly be named the true advocate of the Russian interests on the Far East and North East Asia. The dynamic of the regional cooperation witnesses on poor development of local cooperation mechanisms – investment activity and amount of the ...
As the inaugural Russia-China Expo ended in Harbin last week, which was attended by more than 1,500 exhibitors, the event has created another momentum for Russia-China relations since the Russian-Chinese “gas deal of the century” was signed in May. As apparently ...
... a clash of two mighty coalitions led by great powers and possessing roughly comparable strategic resources, so that one side will not easily and swiftly prevail over the other. Are we going to see this sort of war breaking out in the Asia-Pacific?
China is, of course, the rising power whose growing ambitions put it straight on a collision course with the incumbent hegemon - the United States - much like Anglo-German antagonism set the stage for the first world war. However, even if China becomes,...
In the Ukraine crisis, there is one player who is going to win regardless of the outcome of the standoff. Yet this player has apparently nothing to do with the whole story. That is China.
The leadership in Beijing must be secretly delighted watching the struggle between Russia and the West. The Ukraine crisis can seriously poison Moscow’s relations with Washington and Brussels for a long time to come, thus reducing their ...
... world did not. This paper is a case study of how Beijing and Moscow failed to agree on the partnership’s identity and purpose during the 2012-2013 Diaoyu/Senkaku (D-S) territorial dispute.
Russia’s response to the Diaoyu/Senkaku crisis
A China-Japan dispute should offer Russia an opportunity to play one off against the other, and in the process develop an expanded role for itself in the Asia-Pacific, what Russians call “shift tactics.” A decade ago, Moscow successfully played ...
... enough to spur Gazprom to pursue a 30 billion cubic metres/year (bcm/y) long-distance pipeline development. Even though Kovykta is under Gazprom’s control, Russia’s current priority is to develop Chayandagas and to export to Asia first.
China’s demand for gas has increased significantly during the 2000s, and the development of the West–East Pipeline (WEP I) across the country during the first half of the decade laid solid ground for China’s natural gas expansion. This ...
