The sentiment that the West is an unreliable trade partner in now common in Russia. In an interview with GUANCHA.CN, Russian consumer market expert Dmitry Reva noted that Western corps left the Russian market after the war broke out, leaving a vacuum. Following this, China-Russian trade has enhanced, with prospects for deeper cooperation in agriculture, Far East development, and other fields.

Following the interviews with Zhang Weiwei, director of the China Institute at Fudan University, and Martin Jacques, former senior fellow of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, Guancha.cn (观察者网) invited Vijay Prashad, executive director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, to continue the discussion on the “civilizational state”.