RUSSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS: BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE INDO-PACIFIC. (Part I) Situation Analysis Proceedings

The Editorial Board of the journal Comparative Politics Russiapublishes the proceedings of the situation analysis devoted to the results of the analysis of the dynamics and the current state of Russian-Chinese relations. The leading Russian experts and researchers of the Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), the Institute of Political and Military Analysis, the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Higher School of Economics, Russian National Committee of BRICS discussed the current state and prospects of Russian-Chinese relations. They analyzed the issues of political power transformations in the PRC and changes in the 2018 Chinese political arena, a new stage of Russian-Chinese relations after March 2018 (presidential elections in Russia and constitutional amendments in China), the period of overestimated expectations of Russia from China after the Ukrainian crisis of 2013, and also as a whole, opportunities for transition to a new quality of bilateral long-term cooperation on the basis of pragmatism and mutual interest