Valdai Club

China in northeast Asia and ASEAN in southeast Asia are emerging centres of growing influence in East Asia, for decades the world’s most economically dynamic region. Relations between China and the nations of southeast Asia have generally been positive and developed over millennia, including in the Ming period, when China was a superpower. While the situation today has seen important changes, some positive aspects of the past remain, but not without certain challenges. ASEAN, as a vital contemporary institution of southeast Asia, has seen impressive growth in regional trade and investments with China, which are anticipated to grow further as China’s economy continues to develop.

Will Eurasia (not including the EU) become a single digital ecosystem? The sanctions policy of the “Collective West” is already leading to geoeconomic fragmentation, dividing the Eurasian space. One of the answers to this challenge could be the conjugation of the “Digital Silk Road” with the digital projects of the EAEU in order to increase the technological sustainability of Eurasia, writes Anna Sytnik. The article was prepared specially for the Russian-Chinese Conference “Space of Joint Development: Global and Eurasian Dimensions”.

Are Moscow and Beijing able to develop a common view of the world order and the place of their own history in the world historical process? What factors determine the two powers’ view of what the new world order should be? Andrey Sushentsov, Dean of the School of International Relations at MGIMO University, tries to answer these questions.

Russia and China have provided an example of how it is possible, while remaining committed to international institutions and law, to support the most important trends in the development of international politics, among which the formation of a multipolar world order is at the top of the list. Nowadays, co-operation between the two powers is developing in the context of new trends gaining strength among their main competitors – the Western countries led by the United States, writes Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.