On December 17, the Valdai Club held an expert discussion, titled “World Structure and the Interaction of the Leading Powers”, in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Russia at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at East China Normal University. Feng Shaolei, Director of the Centre for Russian Studies, Director of the Research Institute of Russia and Eurasia at East China Normal University; Xing Guangcheng, Director of the APS Centre for Geography and the History of Chinese Border Territories; Wu Dahui, Deputy Director of the Institute for Russian Studies, Tsinghua University; Andrei Baklitsky, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced American Studies, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Zhang Xin, Deputy Director of the Centre for Russian Studies at East China Normal University, participated. The discussion was moderated by Andrey Sushentsov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club.