Two leading scholars of Russian and Chinese foreign policy explored Moscow and Beijing's evolving interests and approaches to the Middle East at the Institute's 2013 Soref Symposium.
At The Washington Institute's 2013 Soref Symposium in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2013, two leading experts on Russian and Chinese foreign policy joined former U.S. Middle East advisor and Institute managing director Michael Singh for an in-depth conversation about how Moscow and Beijing engage in the region.
Alexander Shumilin is the director of the Center for the Analysis of Middle East Conflicts at the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a contributor to Fikra Forum.
Wu Bingbing is associate professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Culture at Peking University.
