Managing Strategic Competition
When discussing global issues, Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov always recalls that in 1973, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai used a quotation from an ancient Chinese poem to describe the international situation of the time: “Heavy rain is about to shower in the mountains, and a strong wind is blowing through the pavilion.” According to Denisov, nothing has changed after almost half a century and the quotation still applies to the current chaos of global politics.
Increasing instability and uncertainty, growing mistrust in international affairs and worsening China-U.S. relations, are among the thorny problems facing the international community. They were also at the top of the agenda of the Ninth World Peace Forum,
