Roman Pogorelov
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24.06.2014
Chinese Spring?
With the “Arab Spring” scenario unfolding in Ukraine, the USA is aiming at, among other things, driving a wedge between Russia and the EU, and we must recognize that they will succeed in doing this. It is no secret that Russia’s power rests on hydrocarbon exports. The primary consumer of Russian gas and oil is […]
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23.06.2014
Battle With Corruption In China: Real Causes And Objectives
Many people have heard about corruption in China as well as the companies that are combating it, both in the Middle Kingdom and abroad. Another company has been brought to light by incumbent Chinese President Xi Jinping immediately after he came to power. However, despite the stated scope and severity of the methods used to […]
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22.06.2014
Chinese National Security Committee
At the III plenum of the XVIII Central Committee of the CPC, convened in November 2013, among other things, the create of a Chinese National Security Committee was announced. Not much information is available about the new Committee, as is to be expected for such a power structure. It is known that the jurisdiction of […]
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15.06.2014
China: Questions Of State Integrity
We are accustomed to thinking of the Middle Kingdom as something integral and unified, and the Chinese people as a sort of national monolith, but historically these lands often were often occupied by numerous individual governments fighting amongst themselves. The sphere of Chinese cultural and political influence enveloped the neighboring, so-called “barbarian” countries, which were […]
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07.05.2014
Two Chinas
The problem of the two separate Chinas interacting is by no means new and generally it pertains to issues with Taiwan, i.e. defining the relationship between Beijing and Taipei in the new bipolar world of the second half of the 20th century. The USSR and the USA were the two opposing poles. After the Soviet […]
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10.04.2014
Soft Power of PRC, and what Beijing Has To Offer the World
In the present-day world, where the economy constitutes a single market and different political systems are constantly being unified, indirect methods of influencing the opponent – cultural-ideological and world-view instruments of influence – are becoming increasingly important.It is a battle for minds and waging wars to change and transform identity, which does not require a […]
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09.04.2014
China and the multipolar world
There is every reason to believe that the growing confrontation between the West and Russia, which resulted in a conflict around Ukraine and Crimea, is an important milestone, marking a new stage in the struggle for the future world order. Moreover, the way the future will look, largely depends on China’s position in the international […]
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27.03.2014
Overseas Chinese and Their Role in China’s Policies
Chinese diasporas are among the most numerous and well organized diasporas in the world. There is a special term “Huaqiao” (overseas Chinese) to indicate the ethnic Chinese living outside of China. There are about 50 million overseas Chinese all over the world and about 75% of them are concentrated in South-East Asia. The Chinese themselves […]
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18.07.2013
Chinese Alternative
Today there are more publications related to the People’s Republic of China and its achievements in particular. It is connected with the problems accumulated in the modern world and the ways of their solution. The main locomotives of the modern world, United States of America and the EU countries, are not in their best position […]