Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Yanmei Xie, a senior associate fellow at Mercator Insitute for China Studies, to discuss Putin’s visit to Beijing, how China is navigating its relationship with Russia, and why there is still no deal on the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline.
Putin’s Russia has always been China’s pragmatic junior partner while trying to balance its dependency on Beijing, but since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the relationship has become ever more tilted in China’s favor. What are the current dynamics between the two countries, how is China promoting its interests, and what have Putin and Trump’s recent visits to Beijing changed in China’s relationship with Russia?
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Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Janis Kluge, deputy head of the Eastern Europe and Eurasia research team at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, to discuss the Russian military recruitment machine, a possible new mobilization wave, and the state of the Kremlin’s war chest.
Alexander Gabuev, Janis Kluge
Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Nate Reynolds, a senior fellow at Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, to discuss transatlantic security and its future after the recent NATO summit in Ankara.
Alexander Gabuev, Nate Reynolds
Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Tatiana Mitrova, a global fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, to discuss how the latest series of drone attacks and the Middle East conflict have affected the Russian energy industry, and whether they amount to a lethal blow to Putin’s war chest.
Alexander Gabuev, Tatiana Mitrova
Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Thomas de Waal, a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, and Mikayel Zolyan, an independent researcher and ex-deputy in the Armenian parliament, to discuss the significance of the recent Armenian elections.
Alexander Gabuev, Mikayel Zolyan, Thomas de Waal
Podcast host Alex Gabuev is joined by Eugene Rumer, a senior fellow and director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia program, to discuss how Russia perceives its evolving strategic environment in the fifth year of its war against Ukraine, and what security dilemmas the Kremlin faces as a result of its own actions.
Alexander Gabuev, Eugene Rumer
