The Emerging China-Russia Axis: the Return of Geopolitics?

The Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings will hold a public forum that brings together experts from Japan and the United States to examine how recent actions by China and Russia have affected the global order.

Over the past decade, Russia and China have come into closer alignment and their bilateral collaboration has grown. At the same time, Beijing and Moscow have each taken steps to alter the status quo in their respective peripheries (e.g. Russia in Ukraine and China in maritime East Asia). Warmer Sino-Russo relations elicit the question of whether the closer alignment of these two neighbors is somehow changing international politics to the disadvantage of the United States and its friends in Europe and Asia.

On March 24, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings will hold a public forum that brings together experts from Japan and the United States to examine how recent actions by China and Russia have affected the global order. Additionally, panelists will analyze whether new geopolitical rivalries have returned both between and within the East and the West. After the panel discussion, the speakers will take audience questions.

This event will be live webcast. Join the conversation on Twitter using #ChinaRussia.

Panelists

David F. Gordon, Senior Advisor and Former Chairman, The Eurasia Group
Akihiro Iwashita, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University; Center for Asia-Pacific Future Studies, Kyushu University
Chisako T. Masuo, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University
Thomas Wright, Fellow and Director, Project on International Order and Strategy, The Brookings Institution

Moderator: Richard C. Bush, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

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