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Wishnick: It’s going to be a mixed picture with a deepening Russia-China partnership as a whole

(Business Insider) China’s first domestically built icebreaker left this month for its first trip to the Arctic, a few days after President Donald Trump said the US was pursuing as many…

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Fears of Falling Short versus Anxieties of Decline: Explaining Russia and China’s Approach to Status-Seeking

(The Chinese Journal of International Politics) Abstract: Although recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of status, little attention has been paid to the factors that shape states’ status-seeking behaviour. Consequently, existing theories…

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Kazakhs are wary of neighbours bearing gifts

(OpenDemocracy) The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a new front in great power competition — global health posturing. Whether it is assigning blame, providing medical aid, or modelling the most effective…

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Russia Accepts and Emulates China’s Coronavirus Propaganda

(EDM) After a delayed start, Russia is now being hit by the COVID-19 outbreak with devastating force; yet, it has only praise for China’s policy of containing the disease, despite the…

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Cooley: Turkmenistan likely anticipates a post-pandemic economic collapse

(NPR) The Central Asian country of Turkmenistan claims it has no coronavirus cases. But if you happen to utter the word “coronavirus” while waiting, say, for the bus in the white-marbled capital Ashgabat,…

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Masked Diplomacy: Xi and Putin Seek Advantage and Cover from the Pandemic

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) In the United States, President Donald Trump claims to be a wartime president, while denying any responsibility as the country proved unprepared to confront its most serious…

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Snegovaya: We should not trust the data that comes from authoritarian regimes

(The Globe & Mail) Russia and China have launched what experts say are disinformation campaigns against the West, seeking to change the global narrative about where the coronavirus pandemic originated, and…

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Sino-Russian Consolidation at a Time of Geopolitical Rivalry

(CLM) There has a been a notable consolidation of the Sino-Russian partnership during the past two years. Although this has coincided with the U.S.-China trade war and a period of increased…

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Russia Struggles With the Chinese Challenge

(EDM) The scope of the epidemiological disaster unfolding in China has dawned on Russia remarkably late. Last Wednesday (January 29), President Vladimir Putin called a small meeting to check national readiness…

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Roberts: Uighur’s attachment to their traditional lands and ways of life is seen by China’s Communist Party as a risk to the successful implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative

(VOA) While the international attention on China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang has focused mainly on ethnic and religious issues, Beijing’s economic development plans in the strategic region also play…

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Wishnick: It’s going to be a mixed picture with a deepening Russia-China partnership as a whole

Fears of Falling Short versus Anxieties of Decline: Explaining Russia and China’s Approach to Status-Seeking

Kazakhs are wary of neighbours bearing gifts

Russia Accepts and Emulates China’s Coronavirus Propaganda

Cooley: Turkmenistan likely anticipates a post-pandemic economic collapse

Masked Diplomacy: Xi and Putin Seek Advantage and Cover from the Pandemic

Snegovaya: We should not trust the data that comes from authoritarian regimes

Sino-Russian Consolidation at a Time of Geopolitical Rivalry

Russia Struggles With the Chinese Challenge

Roberts: Uighur’s attachment to their traditional lands and ways of life is seen by China’s Communist Party as a risk to the successful implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative