Lai Hairong is an Executive Director of the China Center for Overseas Social and Philosophical Theories.
With the rapid and continuous growth of the Chinese economy during the past three decades, China’s presence has increasingly been felt on the global stage.
The Soviet Union had been a model for China in terms of systemic development, even though international relations between China and the Soviet Union practically broke off in the 1960s. Thus, nothing could be more sweeping in Chinese mentality than the demise of its tutor, the Soviet Union.
With the rapid and continuous growth of the Chinese economy during the past three decades, China’s presence has increasingly been felt on the global stage.
The Soviet Union had been a model for China in terms of systemic development, even though international relations between China and the Soviet Union practically broke off in the 1960s. Thus, nothing could be more sweeping in Chinese mentality than the demise of its tutor, the Soviet Union.
When the Baltic countries entered NATO and the European Union a couple of years ago, many thought it was the end of the centuries-old "red line." Euro-Atlantic organizations had crossed into the former Russian and Soviet empires.
In September 2004, the Russian city of Novgorod hosted an international conference entitled Russia at the Turn of the Century: Hopes and Reality. Its organizers were the RIA Novosti news agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia in Global Affairs, and The Moscow Times.