Experts explained how Russia can be useful to China
China and Russia today are united by a common agenda of confrontation with the collective West.
Experts from the Institute of Economic Research and Economics of Knowledge at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, quoted by Kommersant, come to this conclusion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“China is always ready for an open economy, for cooperation: for it this is an opportunity to gain experience,” says leading researcher at the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences Rozalia Varfalovskaya.
And sinologist Mikhail Korostikov notes that Beijing and Moscow do not consider each other a threat.
“Russia and China now have a common agenda of confrontation with Western countries, so they view each other less as a threat, and more as partners at this particular historical moment,” Korostikov noted.
And the director of the ISSEK Center for Science, Technology, Innovation and Information Policy, Mikhail Gershman, draws attention to the fact that China was able to achieve world leadership in key indicators of scientific and technological development, including the number of publications in international scientific journals, but in many areas of fundamental research other countries they are ahead of him.
“So the PRC intends to increase its competencies by deepening scientific cooperation with the Russian Federation. First of all, we are talking about nuclear physics and the implementation of “megascience” class projects (large, expensive international scientific and research complexes).
Other promising areas are digital technologies and, in particular, artificial intelligence, where the race for primacy between China and the United States is especially acute, new materials, energy, transport, biotechnology, and medicine,” says Gershman.
He adds that China is more interested in Russian fundamental science, and Russia is interested in the experience of Chinese colleagues in the field of commercialization of developments.
Korostikov explains that technological sovereignty means different things for the Russian Federation and China.
“China, apparently, has set itself the task of producing the entire range of key goods and possessing all the key technologies, taking first place in the world in them. For Russia, we are talking about possessing a minimum set of technologies that would allow it to compete with the West and not “sag” in development. But the Russian Federation is really interesting to China in a number of technologies, for example in civil aircraft construction,” the expert believes.
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