On November 16-17, 2023, the Valdai International Discussion Club and the East China Pedagogical University will hold a Russian-Chinese conference in Shanghai on the topic “Crisis and Global Transformation: China and Russia facing the challenges of a changing World Order.”
The Valdai Club was at the origin of an active expert dialogue between Russia and China. For the past ten years, he has been leading the organization of the most relevant Russian-Chinese political discussions and shaping the agenda of bilateral expert cooperation.
East China Pedagogical University is one of the largest research centers in China studying Russia, the former Soviet Union and Sino-Russian relations. It traditionally accumulates the efforts of Chinese intellectual centers and acts as a platform for meetings of experts from Russia and China.
From 2010 to the beginning of the pandemic The Russian-Chinese conference was held regularly. In November, for the first time after a four-year break, the conference will be held again in full-time format. This will be the first expert meeting of the Club with partners from China after a series of Russian-Chinese negotiations at the highest level. At a press conference following his October visit to Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “We set ourselves the task of achieving $200 billion in 2024. And when we formulated this in 2019, I will tell you frankly, few people believed that this was even possible, because at that time our trade turnover was 100 billion, and now – ahead of schedule – already 200.”
A month after the “One Belt, One Road” forum, Russian and Chinese experts will discuss in Shanghai the impact of global and regional processes on the position of China and Russia in the international system, share their expectations of what the new world order and international relations in the field of security, in the global economy and trade, in the field of high technology and science.
The two-day conference program includes opening and closing ceremonies, as well as four thematic sessions:
Russia–China political dialogue in new conditions: achievements and common tasks;
Multilateral cooperation in Greater Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region: a view from Beijing and Moscow;
Information and communication in the modern world: Significance and challenges for China and Russia;
Globalization and regionalization: what do these concepts mean in the new conditions?
Now Russia and China are in the closest relationship than ever in history. There is mutual trust and a common vision of a new, more just world order. “The Russian-Chinese dialogue today is more multifaceted than the Russia–USA and China–USA dialogue. There are much more specialists in China in Russia than in the USA and the EU. The high level of Sinology in Russia and Russian studies in China is becoming an advantage of bilateral relations,” said Timofey Bordachev, curator of the Russian–Chinese Conference, program Director of the Valdai Club.
Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov will take part in the opening ceremony and in the first session of the conference.
The Russian delegation will be represented at the conference in Shanghai by: Research Director of the HSE Department of World Economy Leonid Grigoriev; Director of the HSE Center for Integrated European and International Studies Vasily Kashin; Head of the Center for the Indian Ocean Region of IMEMO RAS Alexey Kupriyanov; Head of the Department of World Economy of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of the Higher School of Economics Igor Makarov; Vice-Rector of the Higher School of Economics, Sherpa of the Russian Federation in the “Women’s Twenty” (W20) Victoria Panova; Dmitry Stefanovich, Researcher at the IMEMO Center for International Security of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Andrey Bystritsky, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for the Development and Support of the Valdai International Discussion Club, Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club, and others.
From the Chinese side, the conference is attended by: Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the East China Pedagogical University Feng Shaolei; Director of the Chinese Academy of International Studies Chen Bo; Director of the Shanghai Academy of International Studies Chen Dongxiao; Director of the Institute of Eurasian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Modern International Relations Ding Xiaoxing; Professor at the Institute of Foreign Languages of Hebei Pedagogical University Guo Xiaoli; Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences (AON) of the People’s Republic of China, Director of the Institute for the Study of China’s Border Problems of the AON of the People’s Republic of China Xing Guangcheng; Director of the Institute of Political Sciences of the Academy of Social Sciences of the People’s Republic of China Zhang Shuhua and others.
Working languages: Chinese, Russian.
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