Valdai Club

The Chinese leadership believes that the main reason for the current changes in international relations lies in the acceleration of the transfer of power between East and West, which is a reflection of changes in the structure of the world order. From a historical point of view, this process of transfer of power will be a long-term process, writes Xu Bo, Professor at the Northeast Asia Research Center of Jilin University (Changchun, China)

The close bilateral relationship between China and Russia is one of the most important features of the evolution of international relations in the early 21st century. At the same time, the changing international order has also created new areas for Sino-Russian cooperation. Today, politicians and scholars from the PRC habitually refer to the changes in the modern international order as "a big change not seen in a century"