IN MEMORIAM

Sergei L. Tikhvinsky, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (09.01.1918 – 02.24.2018)

RAS IFES ROUND TABLE

RAS IFES Round Table on APEC 2017: Possibilities of Regional Development (Review)
V. Mazyrin

POLITICS

Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy as a Means of Containing China
V. Kistanov

Japan’s Parliamentary Elections of 2017: Coming Full Circle, or a New Stage of Political Development?
D. Streltsov

The 19th Congress of the Communist Party of China: The Long March to Rebirth
A. Vinogradov

The Korean Conundrum
A. Zhebin

Basis for Sino-Russian Cooperation in the Arctic
Kuang Zengjun, Ou Kaifei

ECONOMICS

Foreign Investments in the PRC: Their Role in Economic Reform
N. Kotlyarov, A. Ostrovsky

Pilot Free Trade Zones in China
V. Portyakov

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental Agenda of the 19th CPC Congress
I. Ushakov

INFORMATION

The Sinological Library Turns 60
O. Popova

BOOK REVIEW

V.Ya. Portyakov. Shenzhen Tuning Fork. Transformation of China’s Economic Growth Pattern and Shenzhen Development
A.V. Afonasyeva

When Will the Yuan Become a World Currency?
M.A. Potapov

History of China from Ancient Times to the Early 21st Century
I. Pozhilov