Carnegie Moscow Center
Russian-U.S.-Chinese relations in the sphere of strategic stability are becoming a popular topic of discussion among politicians, but analytical research on the topic is still in its beginning stages.
China and the United States account for more than half of the world's coal production and consumption and so have a crucial role to play in putting global energy consumption on a more sustainable path.
Lighter cars, more efficient electricity use, and better integrated smart grids can all help to dramatically reduce global reliance on fossil fuels and demand nothing in the way of intervention on new regulation.
The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China will convene on November 8, 2012, at which time seven of the nine Politburo Standing Committee members will retire, a new Central Committee will be elected, and Xi Jinping is expected to assume the presidency after a decade of preparation.
The 2012 APEC summit took place in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok. Following this summit, the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East organized a conference in Vladivostok dedicated to the Asia-Pacific security in the 21st century.
The National Urban Transport Policy Symposium brought together transportation experts, officials, and politicians from around the world to examine shared challenges and opportunities in national urban transportation policy.
The heated U.S. presidential election, coinciding with China’s once-a-decade political transition, has led to increased scrutiny of U.S.-China bilateral relations.
Young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four have played a central role in shaking up the old order, and while so far they have not been able to shape the policies of the new regimes, they remain key to the outcome of transitions in the region.
Morocco’s foreign trade deficit has been worsening in recent years, with imports at twice the level of exports. The country’s trade deficit now accounts for 23 percent of GDP, a level unprecedented in Morocco’s recent history.
2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Sino-Indian border war, yet the present regional and bilateral conditions are still far from congenial.