Valdai Club

Irina Zvyagelskaya

Tatyana Zvereva

Alexey Zakharov

Konstantin Zatulin

Tatjana Zhdanoka

Natalya Zubarevich

Alexander Zhebin

Alexander Zotin

Nathalia Zaiser

Ivan Zuenko

Russian Federation

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO MFA of Russia, Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO MFA of Russia, Candidate of Historical Sciences

Materials

Russia and Asia: The Paradoxes of a New Reality

Back in October 2017, which may seem today a bygone era, a group of Valdai Club experts teamed up with a group of researchers to release a report titled A Look into the Future: Scenarios for Asia and Russia in Asia in the Next 20 Years.

Does China Have a Foreign Policy Ideology?

Evaluating the logic of Beijing’s actions through the prism of Western models and concepts is, at the very least, unconstructive. China quite consciously did not accept the hegemony of Western discourse in international relations and is trying to build its own discourse, which is in discord with the status quo in the West, writes Valdai Club expert Ivan Zuenko.

‘He Who Controls the Discourse Organises the World.’ How China Resists the Information Hegemony of the West

It is in China that the concepts of “discourse” and “discourse system” are included in the reports of the country’s leadership — they were voiced at the recent 20th Congress of the ruling Communist Party. Perhaps nowhere else in the world do they pay such attention to these concepts, writes Valdai Club expert Ivan Zuenko.

China and the Crisis of the European Security System

China should understand that Washington’s ultimate goal is to systemically curb Beijing’s very ability to exercise its sovereignty as it sees fit. The pressure on China will be constant, writes Valdai Club expert Ivan Zuenko.

Video

‘Russia and Asia: Paradoxes of a New Reality’. Presentation of the Valdai Club Report

04.09.2023