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The White Whale Chooses Freedom: Hard Choices in Opposing Russian Dominance in the Arctic

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Russia’s claims to “Great Power” status may be overblown and even preposterous, but the country is, without a doubt, a great Arctic power. It has more…

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Azerbaijan Through the Prism of BRI: China’s Mounting Interests and Influence in the Region

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) With the diminishing engagement of the United States in the South Caucasus[1] and the weak position of the EU as it deals with Brexit,[2] other world…

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Putin and Xi: Ice Cream Buddies and Tandem Strongmen

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) As Moscow and Beijing enter into the 70th year of their relationship since the Communist Revolution in China, what does the apparent bromance between Presidents Xi…

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Central Asia and the EU Connectivity Strategy: Rising to the Good Governance Challenge

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The EU connectivity strategy for Eurasia, adopted by the European Council in October 2018, is the Union’s response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its…

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On the (Belt &) Road to Failure? The Challenges of China’s Soft Power Policy in Central Asia (and Beyond)

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Notwithstanding twenty years of increasingly prominent political, economic and security relations, China remains poorly understood and even feared among Central Asians. Despite its emergence as the…

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Of Putin and Xi – Russian Roulette Podcast with Hilary Appel

In this episode of Russian Roulette, Jeff Mankoff sits down with Hilary Appel, the Podlich Family Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College in California.…

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Moshes: Political solidarity is there, but Russia clearly wanted to receive more from China

(Edgemarkets) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang kicked off a three-day visit to Moscow on Monday, where he hopes to counter the effects of the US trade war with agriculture deals. But…

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BRI-illiance and BRI-ittleness: Hungary’s Success and Serbia’s Struggle with Chinese Trade Flows

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) First and foremost, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a $550 billion project designed to relieve China’s industrialized zones of surplus output and grow its less…

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Are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Partners? Interpreting the Russia-China Rapprochement

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The blossoming of relations between the Russian and Chinese presidents has been prominently on display. Images have been widely distributed of Xi Jinping awarding Vladimir Putin the…

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Roberts: The “terrorism” label on Uyghurs has taken on a certain kind of “dehumanized” connotation

(Michigan Daily) Since the late months of 2017, news media has increasingly published more information about the detainment of ethnic minority groups in China’s “re-education” camps. These internment camps have been…

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The White Whale Chooses Freedom: Hard Choices in Opposing Russian Dominance in the Arctic

Azerbaijan Through the Prism of BRI: China’s Mounting Interests and Influence in the Region

Putin and Xi: Ice Cream Buddies and Tandem Strongmen

Central Asia and the EU Connectivity Strategy: Rising to the Good Governance Challenge

On the (Belt &) Road to Failure? The Challenges of China’s Soft Power Policy in Central Asia (and Beyond)

Of Putin and Xi – Russian Roulette Podcast with Hilary Appel

Moshes: Political solidarity is there, but Russia clearly wanted to receive more from China

BRI-illiance and BRI-ittleness: Hungary’s Success and Serbia’s Struggle with Chinese Trade Flows

Are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Partners? Interpreting the Russia-China Rapprochement

Roberts: The “terrorism” label on Uyghurs has taken on a certain kind of “dehumanized” connotation