Abstract

On 19 November 2014 the Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies hosted a seminar for an invited audience of public servants and academics on the state of Sino-Russian relations under Putin and Xi Jinping. 

The speakers at the seminar were Kyle Wilson (Visiting Fellow ANUCES), Dr Stephen Fortescue (Associate Fellow ANUCES) and Rebecca Fabrizi (Senior Research Fellow at the ANU’S China in the World Centre). The Briefing Paper summarises their remarks.

A Great Leap Forward? (Kyle Wilson)

Russia’s economic relationship with China: potential and problems (Stephen Fortescue)

Putin’s Russia: The View from Beijing (Rebecca Fabrizi)

The roundtable was the third in the Rigby Lecture Series for 2014. The series was established in March 2013 in honour of the late Professor T.H. ‘Harry’ Rigby. A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and London, Professor Rigby worked at the ANU from 1958 until his retirement in 1996. By the 1970s he had won a reputation as a leading authority on the Soviet Union, and he was the main force driving the ANU’s emergence as a centre of Soviet and Russian studies of global standing. He was among the very few who, in the early 1980s, foresaw fundamental change looming in the Soviet Union, and he remains Australia’s foremost scholar of Russia. 

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