The China-Russia Relationship and Its Global Implications
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From China Strategy Initiative and China 360°.
The relationship between Russia and the People’s Republic of China continues to dominate headlines, news stories, and conversations in the American foreign policy community. Analysts continue to discuss the quality and depth of the relationship, how it’s perceived around the world, and what, if anything, the United States can do about it.
The CFR China Strategy Initiative is pleased to invite members to the inaugural meeting of its China 360 program: a two-part event on China-Russia Relations. Robert D. Blackwill and Richard Fontaine, in a keynote session, discuss their new Council Special Report, No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Policy. Following their insights, CFR experts discuss the view and implications of Beijing and Moscow’s relationship for the rest of the world.
Virtual Session: No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Policy
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DOSHI: Well, good morning, everybody. Thanks very much for braving the streets of Washington, D.C., after two days of snow to make it this morning. I’m Rush Doshi, C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of CFR’s China Strategy Initiative here at the Council. And we’re excited to welcome you today for I think what’ll be a fantastic symposium on “The China-Russia Relationship and Its Global Implications.”
I want to start by saying that today’s two-part symposium is actually also the inaugural event of the China 360 Program, which is one of the four programs under the China Strategy Initiative that we launched just last year. The guiding questions for China 360 are what is China doing around the world and how are countries around the world responding to China’s growing global profile. And of course, one of the most important questions when you think about China’s global ambitions, its portfolio, its behavior, is its relationship with Russia, which is why that’ll be our critical focus today.
We’ve convened to discuss an important really signature special report, Council special report, by Ambassador Bob Blackwill and Richard Fontaine.
As you all know, Ambassador Blackwill is the Henry A. Kissinger...
Virtual Session Two: Global Perspectives of the China-Russia Relationship
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DOSHI: Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome back. We’re excited to begin our next session.
You know, during this session we’ve convened senior fellows at CFR to reflect on the China-Russia relationship and its implications around the world. I’ll introduce each of our distinguished panelists in just a moment.
I’ll ask some general questions to get us started. Then we’ll go to some specific questions for each region before turning it over to the audience in the room and online.
So starting from all the way to my left we have Shannon O’Neil, our senior vice president, director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair here at CFR where in addition to leading our David Rockefeller Studies Program she oversees over fourteen fellowship programs, and when she’s not putting out fires at CFR or joining panels occasionally like this one she’s also wearing an academic hat as a leading authority on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, and Latin America. We’ll have questions for her about Latin America and China-Russia shortly.
Next to Shannon is Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies here at CFR. From 2011 to 2014 Michelle was the U.S. ambassador to Botswana and served...
