Transcript of one-minute interview with News X World on SCO summit, 30 August

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Kataoka – NewsX World: 13:15
Now we move on to our guest discussion with Gilbert Doctorow. He’s a Russian affairs expert, joins us live from Brussels. Thank you very much for joining us again. Good to see you. Now, President Xi is hosting a very high-profile SCO summit this year, including Russian president. What message do you think China is hoping to send to the global community through this gathering?

Doctorow: 13:40
I think it is going to emphasize the consolidation, the growing consolidation of Eurasia and of the global South in an agenda for a multi-polar world. The fact that Putin is going to China for the SCO is in response to the Chinese president’s visit to Moscow for the 80th anniversary celebrations of the end of the war of Europe. So that is exactly a reflection of the preceding visit. Nonetheless, what we see here is an additional presence that is very important, the presence of India, of Mr. Modi, because in the past few weeks, India has found itself in a spat with the United States, which has reversed 25 years of American efforts to bring India into an anti-Chinese encirclement, a coalition against China.

14:45
That has now collapsed entirely. And I believe that these big three powers, China, Russia, and India, will be using time on the, alongside the regular meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and ahead of the parade in Beijing for the 80th anniversary to discuss precisely these crucial issues of how to respond to America’s aggressive behavior and how to defend themselves against the economic warfare.

Kataoka: 15:21
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow, we will be cutting to live in China, so please stay with us and thank you for joining [us.]

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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