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Articles by Ivan Zuenko
Is Russia at risk of becoming China’s ‘satellite’?
Some in Washington see Moscow as a “junior partner” to be drawn away from Beijing’s orbit and into its own By Ivan Zuenko, senior research fellow at MGIMO Univesity Institute of Institute for International Studies (Moscow) Western experts often speak about Russia becoming China’s ‘junior partner’ and even a ‘vassal state’. This narrative has dominated nearly all Western discussions about Russia-China relations for a long time.
Why China needs BRICS
The 16th BRICS summit that took place in Kazan, Russia, became one of the most important meetings in the organization’s history. For the first time, an expanded group of participants took part in the summit (original BRICS members Russia, China, India, Brazil, and South Africa were joined by new members – the UAE, Iran, Egypt, and Ethiopia).
The Game Space of “Information Disorder”
For citation, please use: Bazlutckaia, M.M. and Sytnik, A.N., 2024. The Game Space of “Information Disorder”. Russia in Global Affairs, 22(4), pp. 172–187. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2024-22-4-172-187 Amidst soaring international tensions, the concept of ‘soft power’ has been losing its appeal recently.
Chinese Policy in Central Asia in the Estimation of Chinese Experts
For citation, please use: Leksyutina, Ya.V., 2024. Chinese Policy in Central Asia in the Estimation of Chinese Experts. Russia in Global Affairs, 22(2), pp. 141–154. DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2024-22-2-141-154 Over the last few years, Central Asia’s political, economic, and geopolitical landscape has undergone fundamental changes and even shake-ups.
Ivan Zuenko: China unveils a surprising new weapon in its information war against the West
When summing up 2020 – a difficult year with the Covid-19 pandemic and an escalation in the confrontation between Beijing and Washington – prominent Chinese political scientist Yuan Peng wrote: “It no longer matters what is true or false – what matters is who controls the discourse.” The expert was referring to media pressure to discredit China, but in fact he identified one of the main features of our time – which could be called the ‘post-truth era’, when public opinion is shaped not by...
Ivan Zuenko: Why do China’s elites pay so much attention to the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet Communist Party?
The events of the late 1980s and early 1990s had a major impact not only on the development of Russia and China, but also on the dialogue between the two countries. Moscow and Beijing abandoned decades of rivalry and opted instead for pragmatic cooperation. In 1989, the Soviet Union, where the liberal winds of perestroika were blowing at the time, supported the actions of the Chinese authorities in firmly suppressing the Tiananmen Square protests.
Key Outcomes of CPC’s 20th National Congress
On October 16-22, 2022, the 20th Congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) took place in Beijing. On October 23, the 1st Plenum of the 20th CPC Central Committee was held, where the Secretary General of the CPC Central Committee, the Politburo and its Standing Committee were elected. These events marked the end of the previous five-year cycle in China’s political process and the beginning of a new, already the third five-year cycle with Xi Jinping at the helm of China.
On Chinese Democracy
In recent years, China has been following the adage that “he who controls the discourse controls the world” with increasing vigour. That is, the first side to describe a given phenomenon, with a new coinage emerging, determines global attitudes towards it. There are two nations, one on either side of the Pacific, the two main economies of the world. Both declare they have a constitutional republican system and respect for human rights.
Ivan Zuenko: The US is using the Ukraine crisis to unite the West behind its real goal, a face-off with China
The world is moving from a European security crisis to one that is truly global By Ivan Zuenko, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Studies and Associate Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO, Moscow. If there had not been an active rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing over the past decades, and if Russia did not have an Asian alternative to European markets for oil and gas, it would not have been able to attack Ukraine.
New Crisis Brings New Opportunities for Chinese Business and Russia
On 20 March 2022, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said that Chinese business in Russia should “seize the opportunity to fill the void in the Russian market”. This statement was made at a meeting with Chinese entrepreneurs living in Moscow. “Big companies face major challenges, including disruptions in payment and supply chains. There comes a moment when private, small- and medium-sized enterprises could play a role,” the ambassador concluded.
Kazakhstan in Sino-Russian Relations: Cooperation and Competition between the EEU and BRI
Previous Post Next Post post navi Prev List On the sidelines of the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow on September 12, 2020, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, issued a joint statement hailing the Sino-Russian “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.”1 While containing a boilerplate restatement of the two parties’ commitment to a multipolar world order based on “the principles of sovereign...
Russia-China Partnership Proves Immune to Coronavirus
The inflow of coronavirus cases entering China from Russia won’t ruin the two countries’ flourishing relationship based on pragmatic interests. The Chinese are more disappointed in the anti-China rhetoric coming from the White House than in Russia’s inability to swiftly combat the coronavirus outbreak. For several months now, there have been predictions that the new coronavirus pandemic would cause problems between Russia and China. These expectations are not unfounded.
Kim Jong-un’s Recent Absence: A Viewpoint from North Korean Media Analysis
Previous Post Next Post post navi Prev List “CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT STOP LORD COPPER HIMSELF GRAVELY DISSATISFIED STOP LORD COPPER PERSONALLY REQUIRES VICTORIES STOP ON RECEIPT OF THIS CABLE VICTORY STOP CONTINUE CABLING VICTORIES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE STOP… “They don’t seem very pleased with me in London.
An Indian Perspective
Previous Post Next Post post navi Prev Next List In September 2019, Narendra Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Russia’s Far East. He travelled to Vladivostok to give the keynote at the Eastern Economic Forum and participate in the annual India-Russia leaders’ level summit—the 20th of its kind.
The Vladivostok Phenomenon: Should Russia Eliminate Visa Requirements for Chinese Tourists?
In 2015, Russia introduced visa-free travel for South Koreans. Since then, Korean tourism to Vladivostok has skyrocketed, bringing an economic windfall to the city. That, in turn, has become an argument for lifting the visa regime with China. But several issues stand in the way. Four years ago, the Russian government did something surprisingly important: it launched a visa-free travel regime with South Korea for stays of up to sixty days.
A Chinese-Russian Regional Program Ends With a Whimper
This September marks the end of the nine-year Program of Cooperation between Northeast China and Russia’s Far East and Eastern Siberia (2009–2018). When the document was signed by then Chinese president Hu Jintao and then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, the hope was that the program would boost Russian-Chinese cooperation in the provinces and jump-start development of the Russian Far East. In reality, the Program of Cooperation accomplished little and is barely mentioned today.
A Milestone, Not a Turning Point: How China Will Develop the Russian Far East
The year 2018 promises to become an important milestone for Russian-Chinese regional cooperation in the Far East—“Russia’s national priority for the entire twenty-first century,” as Vladimir Putin famously termed the region.
A US Perspective
"Missile Defense on the Korean Peninsula" From Political Taboo to Strategic Hedge: A US Perspective on Ballistic Missile Defense Ballistic missile defense (BMD) is both expensive and largely unproven;1 so on what basis might we judge its value? This article offers a US perspective about the utility of BMD in support of Korean security. At the regional level, it is a logical hedge in a modern security environment filled with long-range precision weapons.
Asian Security after US Hegemony: Spheres of Influence and the Third Wave of Regional Order
The Asian security landscape is unsettled. The region is quickly becoming multipolar. Hedging strategies—even by US allies—are now commonplace. Intra-regional trust remains low amid myriad territorial and strategic disputes. And Asia’s regional institutions remain unwilling to take on the tasks of security governance because member states will not allow it.
Is Russia Losing Its Logistics Edge?
For more than one hundred years, Russia enjoyed a monopoly on Eurasian shipping and commerce. Despite new logistical challenges, Russia remains central to the lattice of Eurasian commerce: Russian ports in the Far East are an important gateway to Europe for imported goods and raw materials, and the Trans-Siberian Railway remains a principal intercontinental shipping route for transit traffic from East Asia.
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