11 June 2019
June 11th, MGIMO hosted a round table with representatives of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. During the event, experts from both countries exchanged views on bilateral relations between Russia and China in a rapidly evolving international political and economic context.
In his welcome words, MGIMO’s Vice-Rector for Research Evgeny Kozhokin described the University’s different educational and research activities related to Asia and Eurasia. The Director of Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects and Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Alexey Voskresensky, spoke about the activities of the Center and the University’s main priorities in its scientific research on China. Also participating on the Russian side were the Head of the Center for Political Studies and Forecasting at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies RAS and leading researcher at the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects Andrey Vinogradov, the
Deputy Dean of the School of International Relations, Associate Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies and Leading Expert of the ASEAN Center Ekaterina Koldunova, the Associate Professor of the Department of Oriental Studies, Researcher at the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects Ksenia Efremova and the Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, Researcher at the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects Anna Kireeva.
The Shanghai Institutes for International Studies are among the leading Chinese research institutes on international relations. The Chinese expert delegation included Chen Dongxiao, the President of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, Zhao Long, the Assistant Director of Institute for Global Governance Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, Zhang Yuanpeng, Director of the Institute for World Economy Studies of the Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences and Xu Xiaolan, Program Officer of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.
The sides mulled over a myriad of topics, including the evolution and dynamics of Russian-Chinese relations, challenges and ways to overcome them, the two countries’ understandings of a multipolar world order, relations between China and the United States, between Russia and the United States and within the Russia-US-China triangle, each country’s perspective on current trends in the Asia-Pacific region and the Indo-Pacific space, the possibilities and prospects for interaction between the Eurasian Economic Union and the «One Belt — One Road» initiative, the significance of the Greater Eurasian Partnership, the development of BRICS, the ways in which this organization and non-western norms can contribute to shaping a new world order, issues related to the development and modernization of the modern world. Both sides also discussed the opportunities for expanding cooperation in research between the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and MGIMO.
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