Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School and the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University for a virtual talk by expert Alexander Gabuev. He will discuss the future of the relationship between Russia and China and what it might mean for the United States. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event on Zoom. The event will also be streamed live via Facebook.

Alexander Gabuev is a senior fellow and the chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. His research is focused on Russia’s policy toward East and Southeast Asia, political and ideological trends in China, and China’s relations with its neighbors, especially those in Central Asia. Prior to joining Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Gabuev was a member of the editorial board of Kommersant publishing house and served as deputy editor in chief of Kommersant-Vlast, one of Russia’s most influential newsweeklies. Gabuev started his career at Kommersant in 2007 working as a senior diplomatic reporter, as a member of then-president Dmitry Medvedev’s press corps, and as deputy foreign editor. His reporting covered Russia’s relations with Asian powers and the connection between Russian business interests and foreign policy. Gabuev has previously worked as a nonresident visiting research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and taught courses on Chinese energy policy and political culture at Moscow State University. In 2018, Gabuev was a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, where he taught courses on Sino-Russian relations. Gabuev is a Munich Young Leader of Munich International Security Conference and a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia.