Russia opens research centre on Xi Jinping’s ideology, the first outside China

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• Analysis will allow the ‘government, business and scientific community to understand modern China better’, says head of institute overseeing the lab
  
• Move reflects the changing views within Russian academia on the West and China, especially in the past two years, according to Chinese observer
  

Russia has opened a state-funded research centre on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ideology “to understand modern China better”.

The Modern Ideology of China Research Laboratory was launched in June by the Russian Academy of Sciences at its Institute of China and Contemporary Asia (ICCA) in Moscow.

It is the first such research centre on the Chinese leader’s political doctrine – known as Xi Jinping Thought – outside China, according to state news agency Xinhua.

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