Category: Economy

Quiet Compliance: China’s Dilemma Over Western Sanctions Against Russia

Post author By Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
Post date 28/04/2022
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Image courtesy of The Russian Presidential Press and Information Office, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

The quiet compliance of Chinese companies with Western sanctions against Russia highlights a critical dilemma for Beijing: China’s continued dependence on the United States and Europe in strategic sectors of the economy restrains its political objectives vis-à-vis Russia. This forced trade-off will further strengthen Beijing’s resolve to reduce critical economic dependencies and to bolster its resilience against potential future sanctions.

Tags International Relations, China, European Union, Ukraine, Russia, Economy, Sanctions, USA

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Interdependencies of Trends Relevant for the Swiss Civil Protection System

Post author By Center for Security Studies
Post date 12/08/2021
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This week’s featured graphic points out the interdependencies of trends relevant for the Swiss Civil Protection System. For more on uncertainties, challenges and opportunities of trends in civil protection, read Andrin Hauri, Kevin Kohler, Florian Roth, Marco Käser, Tim Prior, and Benjamin Scharte’s CSS’ Risk and Resilience Report here.

Tags Critical infrastructure, Climate change, Demography, Security, Trends, Technology, Mobility, Switzerland, Civilian Protection, Environment, Artificial Intelligence, Economy, Disaster Risk Reduction, Urbanization, Social Media, Geopolitics

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Assessment of the Financial Situation of Households (2nd quarter of 2019)

Post author By the Center for Security Studies
Post date 15/10/2020
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This graphic illustrates the financial situation of rural and urban Russian households during the 2nd quarter of 2019. According to surveys on living standards and deprivation, the extent of perceived poverty is worse than the official poverty line suggests.

For more on the extent of poverty in Russia and the government’s policies to combat it, see Russian Analytical Digest 249 on ‘Need-Based Social Policies’.

Tags Finance, Poverty, Russia, Economy

Denmark’s China Challenge

This article was originally published by the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) on 29 October 2019.

A common refrain in Denmark is that China is too far away to be a threat to Danish economic, foreign and security policy interests. This is no longer the case. Danish policy-makers acknowledge that China’s rise as a global superpower presents Denmark with new challenges. However, transforming this strategic thinking into practice is no simple task.

Tags China, European Union, Security, Economy, Foreign policy, Foreign relations, Denmark

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Economic Ties between Russia, China, the US and the EU in 2016

Post author By the Center for Security Studies
Post date 26/04/2018
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This graphic plots the volume of trade between Russia, China, the US and the EU in 2016. For more on the China-Russia relationship, see Brian Carlson’s chapter for Strategic Trends 2018 here. For more CSS charts, maps and graphics on economics, click here.

Tags International Relations, China, European Union, Russia, United States of America, Economy, Global Trade