V Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia Conference

This academic event is dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the Eurasian Research on Modern China and Eurasia Conference.

The Conference focuses on modern China-Eurasia studies from a multi-disciplinary social science perspective. This year it will primarily focus on the second phase of Belt and Road Initiative, impact of the Multipolar World Order 2.0, international relations, R&D, economics, innovations, digitalization, cyberspace, security issues, supply chains, China and the Post-Soviet Eurasian States, China and European subcontinent, Russia-China, India-China relations, China and the Middle East, colliding interests of China and other Great powers in different regions of Eurasia, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, for more details please check topics.

PROGRAM

December 8th, 2023

Welcome Remarks 
Dr. Narek Mkrtchyan (Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Republic of Armenia)
H. E. Mr. Yong Fan (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the PRC to Armenia)

Remarks
Mrs. Gohar Barseghyan (Director, Integration Development Department in the Eurasian Economic Commission)
Mr. Hakob Abrahamyan (Assistant of the Prime Minister of Armenia)
H. E. Mrs. Wei Zheng (Secretary-General, the Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Commission of the SCO)
Dr. Yuntian Zheng (Director, World Socialism Institute, Renmin University, China)
 Chair: Dr. Mher Sahakyan (China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research)

Plenary Session 
Prof. Dr. Heinz Gärtner (Vienna University)
Dr. Narayanappa Janardhan ( Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy)
Dr. Bin MA (Fudan University)
Dr. Alexander Korolev (HSE University)
Dr. David Morris (Center for China and Globalization)
Chair: Dr. Mher Sahakyan 

Panel 1
Dr. Zheng Yuntian “Three Initiatives: Consensus-Building between China and Eurasia”
Dr. Mher Sahakyan “The Eurasian Continent in the Multipolar World Order 2.0 Stage”
Prof. Dr. Zheng Jiyong (Fudan University), “Restructuring World Order: A China’s Perspective”
Dr. Oxana Karnaukhova (Southern Federal University), “In Pursuit of Sovereignty? The Global Gateway and its Vis-a-vie in Eurasia”
Dr. Pengfei Hou (Xinjiang University) “Journey to or beyond the West? Xinjiang and New Eurasian Order in the Making”
Panel Chair: Prof. Dr. Heinz Gärtner 

Panel 2
Dr. Liu Chang (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “The United States’ Position on BRI Under the ‘Threat Narrative’”
Dr. Tuba Eldem (Fenerbahce University) “China’s Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 and Turkey’s Strategic Connectivity in Eurasia”
Dr. Jing Shi (Tsinghua University) “The People-to-People Exchange between China and Georgia in the Framework of the Belt and Road Initiative in an Era of Multipolar World Order 2.0”
Lolita Koroleva (HSE University) “The Belt and Road initiative and its implications for the EU”
Dr. Giorgio Caridi (E-Campus University) “Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 or a Brand-New Approach? The impact of Communication in the Italian Case Study”
Chair: Dr. Bin Ma 

December 9, 2023

Panel 3. The Digital Silk Road and Cybersecurity
Prof. Dr. António Tavares and Prof. Dr. Paulo Afonso B. Duarte (Lusófona University and Minho University) “The Security Dimension of the Digital Silk Road: from Netpolitik to Digitalpolitik”
Dr. Anahit Parzyan (China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research) “Digital Power and Crisis Management”
Xiaojuan Yang (Hildesheim University) “A Comparative Study of China and Russia’s Cyber Sovereignty”
Chair: Zheng Yuntian 

Panel 4
Prof. Dr. Kerry Longhurst (Collegium Civitas) “Best of all Worlds? China, Russia and the European Union in Georgia’s Gaze”
Dr. Jessica Neafie and Mrs. Kamila Koshimkhan (Nazarbayev University) “Kazakhstani Public Attitudes toward Chinese Foreign Direct Investments: Survey Experiments, Causal Mediation, and Social Media Analysis”
Dr. Jin Xi (Renmin University) “Perceptions of Chinese Scholars on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict”
Akira SANO (University of Tsukuba) “Text Visualizing for Russian Anonymous Chat on Ukrainian War: A Case Study of Views of the US and China in YouTube Comments”
Dr. Gevorg Melikyan (Armenian Institute for Resilience and Statecraft) “Cognitive Warfare: Understanding the Battle for Hearts and Minds”
Dr. Péter Pál Kránitz (Hungarian Institute of International Affairs) “(Sur)realities of Armenia’s EU accession”
Chair: Dr. Mher Sahakyan 

Panel 5
Prof. Dr. Paulo Afonso B. Duarte “The South Atlantic in China’s 21st Maritime Silk Road: from a Bystander to a Quest for Residency”
Jinrui Liu (Leiden University) “A Comparative study of China and the United States’ reactions to ASEAN Centrality in the Indo-Pacific Context”
Chaoting Cheng (Free University of Berlin) “Foreign Strategic Capabilities: A Comparative Analysis of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the US”
Chair: Dr. Matthieu Grandpierron 

Panel 6
Dr. Tamas Dudlak (ELTE University) “Opening to the East: the Energy Partnership of Iran and China”
Dr. Ioana Constantin-Bercean (Romanian Academy) “Sino-Iranian Ties: Toward a Strategic Equilibrium or Pragmatic Partnership?”
Dr. Connor Judge (Ashoka University/Harvard-Yenching Institute) “China, India, Russia, and Oil Sanctions Circumvention: Emerging Approaches, Challenges and Externalities of Economic Statecraft”
Yeghia Tashjian (Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy) “Russia, INSTC, Regional Trade Interconnectivity and the Future of the Middle East”
Chair: Dr. Narayanappa Janardhan 

Panel 7
Dr. Matthieu Grandpierron (Catholic University of Vendée) “NATO and SCO Visions and Understandings of Security – a Comparative Analysis”
Armine Arzumanyan (American University of Armenia) “Analysing CPC’s Image-Building for the EU and the US in the Context of NATO”
Asya Gasparyan (Yerevan State University) “Mutual Perceptions in Flux: Rethinking NATO-China Relations”
Dr. Yajun Bao (Fairbank Center) “Implication of the Emerging Perspective of Party-Centred Analysis to China’s Governance”
Chair: Dr. Alexander Korolev