🌏 Northeast Asia: How Far Can Confrontation Go?

Recently, increasingly alarming news has been coming from Northeast Asia. The situation on the Korean Peninsula is escalating again — Pyongyang and Seoul are exchanging threatening statements and demonstrating their determination in every possible way, including the firing of artillery in the sea in the immediate vicinity of the demarcation line. 

Konstantin Khudoley, professor at the Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University, believes that while the situation on the Korean Peninsula may be approaching the boiling point, it is unlikely that either side will cross the proverbial red line and spark another military conflict near the borders of the Russian Federation.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/northeast-asia-how-far-can-confrontation/

#Multipolarity_and_Connectivity #Asia #KoreanPenisula

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🗺️ BRICS – is a platform for partnership between states whose interests coincide in the following areas: politics, economics and security.

BRICS in 2024 unites 45% of the earth's land mass, 46% of the world's population, 47% of World GDP. Watch our video infographic to find out more about BRICS in 2024.

#valdai_infogaphics #BRICS

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🇰🇵 Modern North Korea is a full member of the nuclear club.

Its nuclear missile potential has crossed the bar of minimum deterrence and is an important factor in deterring military conflict on the peninsula.

The DPRK clearly positions itself as a nuclear power: this status is included in the country's constitution, and one of the six nuclear tests was declared as a hydrogen bomb test. 

The United States will have to learn to live with the knowledge that North Korean nuclear weapons will be aimed at the American heartland, writes Konstantin Asmolov.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/north-korea-s-nuclear-potential/

#DPRK #NorthKorea #NuclearWeapons

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🗣 Programme of the 13th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Time for Decisive Action: A Comprehensive Settlement for the Sake of Stability in the Region”

📆 February 13, Tuesday

09:55 – 10:00 — Opening of the conference (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

10:00 – 11:30 — Session 1. Towards a Comprehensive Settlement in the Middle East (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

12:00 – 13:30 — Meeting with Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 2. Heritage of Colonial Policy and Its Echoes in the Middle East (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

16:30 – 18:00 — Session 3. Question of Palestine – What Is Next? (live: English, Arabic, Russian)

📆 February 14, Wednesday

10:30 – 12:00 — Session 4. Diversity of Actors in the Middle East: Is Balance Achievable?

12:30 – 14:00 — Session 5. Is a Nuclear-free Middle East Possible?

15:00 – 16:30 — Session 6. Economic Cooperation in the Region: Opportunities and Challenges

Programme of the 13th Middle East Conference

Links to the live broadcast of open sessions will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VKontakte, Telegram and Dzen.

❗️Accreditation will close on February 12 at 16.00 Moscow time.

#MiddleEastValdai #valdai_programme #MiddleEast

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🇷🇺🌏 It is now extremely important for Russia to build a strategy in Eurasia and beyond, regardless of how quickly the goals of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine are achieved, as well as the general objectives in the field of European security formulated officially at the end of 2021. 

Russia's Greater Eurasia’s strategy is formed under the influence of several basic factors.

1️⃣ First, it cannot develop in isolation from how Moscow sees a new, fairer international order. It is based on respect for international law and the sovereign equality of states, and does not allow exclusive opportunities for one state or group. Greater Eurasia, due to its geopolitical position, is the strongest material foundation of this order, since the states located there naturally consider the security of their neighbours as part of their own.

2️⃣ Second, cooperation in Greater Eurasia inevitably relies on the global structures of the new international order, among which the central place is occupied by BRICS, the expansion of which has become the most important international event of 2023. During its chairmanship of the group, Russia will have to consider, as a whole, issues related to the development of BRICS and the strengthening of international cooperation in Greater Eurasia.

3️⃣ Third, the movement of Greater Eurasia towards more intense internal integrity cannot and will never be able to be carried out within the framework of the leadership model characteristic of all international institutions of the past. In Greater Eurasia, three of the four most important powers of the modern world are located – Russia, India and China, each of which balances the others, which is a guarantee against the formation of an unequal model of relations.

4️⃣ Finally, painstaking work on the practical “interconnection” of different forms of institutional and informal interaction between the countries of the region will remain important for Russian policy in Greater Eurasia. The process of cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union and China, which is promoting the Belt and Road initiative, still continues, the SCO agenda is becoming more diverse, and the Collective Security Treaty Organisation is occupying its unique niche. The task that will inevitably be present in the activities of Russian diplomacy is the “conjugation” of their national interests and the dynamics of the development of structured forms of international cooperation in a huge region.

It is important for Russian foreign policy to be adaptive and able to benefit not only itself, but also the future of Eurasia, as a space of equal strategic cooperation between sovereign states, writes Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-greater-eurasia-and-modern-international/

#WiderEurasia #Eurasia #WorldOrder #GreaterEurasia #WorldMajority

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🇵🇹 The report of the Valdai Discussion Club by Vasily Kashin and Andrey Sushentsov, titled “Warfare in a New Epoch: The Return of Big Armies”, has recently been published in Portuguese and can be found on the “Canal Arte da Guerra” website. 

The aim of this project is to contribute to understanding of the nature of relations between states. The content of the website includes studies, reports, and podcasts on geopolitics, defense, state management, and military history. 

⬇️ Download the Report “Warfare in a New Epoch: The Return of Big Armies” in Portuguese

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UPD: The livestream is over. The video of the discussion is available via the same link. Stay tuned!

🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 a.m. (Moscow time) at the Valdai Club there will be a presentation of the new report: “Gaza. Yemen. Epicentres of Pain. Feelings, Myths and Memory in the Middle East” on the eve of the 13th Middle East Conference.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239162

#MiddleEastValdai #valdai_report #MiddleEast

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🗣 On February 8, 2024, at the Valdai Club there was a presentation of the new report: “Gaza. Yemen. Epicentres of Pain. Feelings, Myths and Memory in the Middle East” on the eve of the 13th Middle East Conference.

📷 Photo gallery

🎥 If you missed the live broadcast of the discussion, watch the video via this link.

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👥 Some countries in the Middle East remain hotbeds of tension for many years and even decades, generating flows of refugees and internally displaced persons.

Especially for the 13th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, we created an infographic on modern conflicts in the Middle East. The high-res infographic is available on the website.

#MiddleEastValdai #valdai_infogaphics #conflicts #MiddleEast

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