Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Alexander Gabuev.
Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, talks with CNN’s Bianna Golodryga about the French President Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic mission in China.
Both Xi Jinping and Putin see themselves vulnerable at home, and they definitely want to join hands to push back against U.S. hegemony.
The relationship between Beijing and Moscow was asymmetric before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and it is now asymmetry on steroids where China is in the driving seat and is in full control.
n one sense, the war did not really begin in 2022. It did not even begin in Ukraine. It started the first time Vladimir Putin invaded one of Russia’s neighbours and got away with it. That was 15 years ago, in Georgia.
A Justice Department task force targeting Kremlin-aligned Russian oligarchs has seized more than $500 million of their riches — including everything from luxury yachts to opulent homes.
It’s been one year now since Vladimir Putin launched his assault on Ukraine, and China has sought to maintain the same difficult, awkward straddle across a difficult year. Did Beijing’s efforts to project the impression that it had distanced itself from Russia in the wake of the Party Congress mean anything?
Alexander Gabuev, a senior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment think-tank, speaks to Gideon about the seriousness of Putin’s threat.
Russia is a far smaller economy and China is a stronger partner, but the war has exacerbated this trend. Russia is fairly isolated from its ties with the West and it has to turn to China, which gives China an increasing amount of leverage.
Many Russians are not aware of the situation on the front lines. For them it is still a special military operation happening somewhere in Ukraine.
