China and Russia: a friendship without limits

This week, Julien Barnes-Dacey welcomes Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, for a fireside chat at ECFR’s Annual Council Meeting. In Prince Faisal’s first public appearance since the Iran-US memorandum of understanding was announced, he a ...  Show more

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Carl Benedikt Frey, associate professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute and author of How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations, to discuss whether AI enthusiasm is obscuring a more fundamental problem: the ...  Show more

As Xi Jinping, China’s leader, meets with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow this week, Chinese officials have been presenting his trip as a mission of peace. But American and European officials are watching for something else altogether — whether Mr. Xi will add ...

Oggi Xi Jinping e Putin si sono incontrati a Mosca. È il loro quarantesimo incontro, ma il primo da quando è iniziata l’invasione di Mosca dell’Ucraina. A favore di telecamere i due si sono scambiati frasi un po’ sdolcinate e complimentose che servono a confermare agli occhi del ...  Show more

On ne cesse de s’interroger sur la relation qu’entretiennent la Chine et la Russie… particulièrement depuis le début de la guerre d’Ukraine. Les déclarations récentes de l’ambassadeur de Chine en France ont ajouté au trouble, alors que Lu Shaye contestait devant nos confrères de ...  Show more

Day 310. Today, as Putin announces that China's leader Xi Jinping will be visiting Russia in the New Year, we discuss what this meeting means for the war in Ukraine. Plus, we reflect on the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Union and what it can tell us about the cu ...  Show more