Zhang Xin: How real is Russia’s pivot to China?

Описание: This week, our guest is Zhang Xin, Deputy Director of the Center for Russian Studies at East China Normal University. We discuss the history of Russia studies in the PRC, the Sino-Russian border area, and the logic of the US-China-Russia triangular relationship, among other subjects.
Time Stamps:

• 00:00:51 Grad school at UCLA and interest in Russia
• 00:02:45 First visit to Moscow in 2005
• 00:05:04 History of Soviet/Russia studies in PRC
• 00:12:24 Impressions from most recent trip to Russia
• 00:14:35 Russian interest in creating new partnerships in China
• 00:17:47 Sino-Russian border area
• 00:24:10 Harbin
• 00:27:24 Resolution of Sino-Russian border disputes
• 00:31:33 The US-China-Russia Triangle
• 00:37:21 Difference in Chinese and Russian conceptions of Eurasian space
• 00:40:10 Global West - Global East - Global South

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.


**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.