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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Russia Opens First Xi Jinping Research Center Outside China

Russia’s Academy of Sciences (RAS) has opened a research center specializing in the study of Chinese President Xi Jinping's communist teachings, the first ever established outside China, Russian and Chinese media reported Thursday.

Kirill Babayev, head of the RAS Institute of China and Contemporary Asia, linked the opening of the Xi Jinping Thought Research Laboratory to the growing Sino-Russian alliance.

“We need to know and analyze Xi Jinping’s ideas very closely because China today is our main strategic and economic partner,” Babayev told the Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

“Therefore, in order to develop our relations more efficiently, our government needs to properly understand the ideological basis for the development of modern-day China,” he added.

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