Russia in Global Affairs

China seeks to create a new worldview system that can surpass Western “universal values” thanks to its reliance on reality and practice. Its key component is the Chinese leadership’s confidence in the correctness and effectiveness of the national development model.

Some countries, such as the U.S., India, and Germany, eschew academic training of their diplomats, confining training to a more limited set of professional skills such as crisis management and digital engagement. This trend can be attributed to the increasing velocity and complexity of the international system: cyber threats, economic shocks and more.

The Geneva agreement appears as a practical implementation of the Chinese dialectical thinking of “seeking cooperation with U.S. through fighting.” For China, adherence to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation in its interactions with the U.S. has long been the cornerstone of its U.S. policy.

With the approach the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it has become increasingly visible how China and Russia’s vital roles in defeating fascism are downgraded and distorted in the Western narrative.

Russia, China, and the US form a strategic triangle of power that is not static. It will shift.

The acceptance and spread of China’s foreign policy concepts will be limited for the foreseeable future by Beijing’s lack of an internationalist agenda, an agenda that is contradicted by the CCP’s national-patriotic domestic ideology.

For Russia, currently locked in confrontation with the West, China’s presence in Central Asia promises not only challenges, but also benefits, such as enhanced security and economic interconnectedness, providing Russia with necessary goods and filling vacuums that might otherwise be occupied by unfriendly countries.

Although the U.S. and China are leading in key AI development indicators, Russia has good chances to occupy its niche in the ethical and discursive dimension of AI competition, thus uniting states with similar dominant values.

With any luck, Donald Trump’s second round in power may contribute to cooling down the British and other European leaders’ missionary zeal, although it is not so much the personality of the U.S. 47th President that matters but the revolutionary situation in the United States and the changing geopolitical and geo-economic configuration of the world.