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Authors: Mikhail Titarenko, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director, Institute for Far
Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Petrovsky, Chief Research Associate, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Doctor of Science (Political Science)
IN RECENT YEARS, the global situation has ex-
perienced powerful shocks that have aggravated
existing contradictions, fanned tensions and given
rise to various threats
There are mounting new threats and challenges in
the world. International terrorism has assumed un-
precedented proportions, the West pursues poli-
cies that encourage clashes between civilizations,
and governments' violence against their own peo-
ple triggers large-scale protest movements that are
increasingly difficult to suppress, and methods
used for this quite often make matter worse.
Russia doesn't see a potential rapprochement between the United States and China as a threat to its
economic or geostrategic interests, but in fact believes it would create a new, and ultimately more fa-
vorable, environment for the defense and promotion of these interests.
The reassessment of the Chinese policy of George W. Bush led Barack Obama's administration to the
conclusion that it was hardly possible to make Beijing change its political course or monetary policy to
suit American interests. This has resulted in the idea of a joint large-scale project to China - a bipolar
framework that wouldn't lead critics to accuse Washington of concessions but could be interpreted as
a plan to build a joint governance system and elements of a new world order.
However, the Chinese economy with its stability and sustained pace of growth consolidates the leading
role of the Communist Party in China's political system, and so there is no reason to expect China to
move towards the Western model in the foreseeable future. Therefore, although the Cold War is over
in Asia-Pacific as it is in Europe, one can foresee a long period of coexistence in the region of two sys-
tems - Chinese and Western - with different economic and political models, ideologies, and values.
China's mounting power poses no threat to Russian regional or global interests. Russia and China are
the pillars of a multipolar international structure, and both countries equally need this structure to be
strong and stable. There are a lot more points where their interests are similar or coincide than potential
sources of disagreement between them. Russian-Chinese strategic partnership is consistently moving
from the phase of political declarations to the phase of political practice, including major joint initiatives
for bringing more order and harmony into international relations, for ways of building a multipolar
system, for defending principles of international law and the UN Charter, and for preventing policies
of hegemony and diktat.
Respect for each other's choice, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, and maintaining an at-
mosphere of confidence and equitable cooperation have become the new platform for relations between
Russia and its partners in building the new world order.
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Russia, China and the New World Order