Managing Strategic Competition

When discussing global issues, Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov always recalls that in 1973, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai used a quotation from an ancient Chinese poem to describe the international situation of the time: Heavy rain is about to shower in the mountains, and a strong wind is blowing through the pavilion. According to Denisov, nothing has changed after almost half a century and the quotation still applies to the current chaos of global politics.