Can the Bear and the Dragon be bosom buddies? The Current and Future State of Sino-Russian Relations

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20 April 2015

3:13pm-6:00pm

HKUST Business School Central Rm 1501- 02 15/F Hong Kong Club Building 3A Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong (中環遮打道3A號香港會所大廈15樓1501-02室)

Co-hosted by: Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, HKUST Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, and Center for Asia and Pacific Studies, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

Thanks to the generosity of Institute for Emerging Market Studies (HKUST), Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, and Center for Asian Pacific Studies, Lingnan University (Hong Kong), for sponsoring the event, the Center on China’s Transnational Relations at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will hold this forum on Sino-Russian relations.

Rundown of workshop:

3:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Reception

3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Introduction
Prof. David Zweig
Director, Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST

3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Ukraine crisis and current major countries relations
Prof. Shaolei Feng
Dean of School of Advanced International and Area Studies
East China Normal University

4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
A Sino-Russian Entente? The Scope and Limits of Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership Under Xi Jinping
Prof. Jeremy Paltiel
Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University

4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Beijing-Moscow Axis: Strategic Realignment or Same Bed, Different Dreams?
Dr. Baohui Zhang
Director
Centre for Asian Pacific Studies
Lingnan University

5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Sino-Russian relations: challenges ahead
Ms. Elena Sushkova
Research lead (Asian studies)
Asian Studies Center
Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

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