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Mr Chris Cheang

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BSSc Hons (University of Singapore)
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Russo-US Ties Under the Biden Presidency
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Mr Chris Cheang

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BSSc Hons (University of Singapore)
: [email protected]
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Biography

Chris Cheang is a Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). He has a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours, Second Upper) from University of Singapore, graduating in 1980. Before joining RSIS, he was a Foreign Service Officer, working in various capacities in the European department dealing with Western and Eastern Europe, the Southeast Asia department dealing with Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, the Computer and Security Information Department (self-explanatory), and the International Economics department dealing with APEC, and FreeTrade Agreements.

He also served in the Singapore Embassy as First Secretary, essentially the number two, in Bonn (November 1983-June 1987); as First Secretary and subsequently Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy in Moscow, also the number two position (August 1994-August 1997; December 1999-March 2004; November 2006-June 2013) and finally as Consul-General in San Francisco (August 2013-August 2017).

Chris is relatively fluent in the Russian language, having done a 3-month full-time Russian language course in MGU (Moscow State University, Russia’s best university), from May-August 1994 and having practised the language during his 3 tours in Moscow; he subsequently acquired a Russian language certificate at advanced level from the Russian MFA’s Academy.

He has an excellent command of the German language, having done a full-time course in the Goethe-Institut in Mannheim and Munich from April 1982-February 1983 and graduating with an advanced level certificate; since then, he regularly took and passed with flying colours, the advanced level exams at the Goethe-Institut in Moscow, Singapore and San Francisco, the latest being undertaken in November 2016, as required by the Singapore MFA.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Basis and Directions of Russian Foreign Policy;
  • Russia’s Relations with China and the US, as Seen from the Russian Perspective;
  • Role of Central Asia in Russia’s Relations with China and the US; and
  • Russo-ASEAN Relations

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RSIS Publications

    Commentaries

    • Russo-US Ties Under the Biden Presidency

      18 December, 2020

    • Crises in Nagorno-Karabakh and Kyrgyzstan: Russia's Interests

      29 October, 2020

    • Russian Balancing Strategy: Setbacks in 2020?

      21 September, 2020

    • Belarus: New Arena for Russia-West Discord

      27 August, 2020

    • Russia, China and the Arctic: Cooperation or Looming Rivalry?

      28 July, 2020

    • Russia’s Referendum: Is the Succession Issue Settled?

      03 July, 2020

    • Global Health Security: COVID-19 and Its Impacts - Russia’s Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy

      12 May, 2020

    • Putin After 2024: More Power or More Predictability?

      14 February, 2020

    • Putin’s 2020 State-of-the-Nation Address: More Power?

      21 January, 2020

    • Russia as Mediator in US-Iran Crisis?

      09 January, 2020

    • Russian Foreign Policy: Balance Sheet 2019

      30 December, 2019

    • Russo-Kazakh Relations: The China Factor

      19 November, 2019

    • Russia and the West: Towards Normalisation?

      08 October, 2019

    • Russia's Pivot to the East: A New Balance?

      27 September, 2019

    • Russia and Germany: A New Future?

      30 July, 2019

    • G-20’s Osaka Summit: What Putin Achieved

      03 July, 2019

    • Russia and the Kuriles: Achilles’ Heel or Bargaining Chip?

      20 June, 2019

    • Xi’s Visit to Russia: Beginning of a New Era?

      07 June, 2019

    • Putin-Kim Summit: Enter the Russian Factor

      29 April, 2019

    • Kazakhstan: End of an Era?

      22 March, 2019

    • Putin’s State-of-the-Nation Speech: Primacy of Domestic Politics

      26 February, 2019

    • Online Extremism in Russia: Assessing Putin’s Move

      05 December, 2018

    • Russia’s Pivot to the East: Putin’s Broadening Move

      15 November, 2018

    • Russia and India: As Close As Lips & Teeth?

      18 October, 2018

    • CO18151 | Russia-China Relations: Alliance in the Making?

      17 September, 2018

    • CO18124 | Trump-Putin Helsinki Summit: So Who Gained?

      23 July, 2018

    • CO18115 | The Coming Trump-Putin Summit

      06 July, 2018

    • CO18108 | Is Russia Still Isolated?

      27 June, 2018

    • CO18100 | Trump-Kim Summit 2018: Russia’s Cautious Response

      19 June, 2018

    • CO18051 | New Putin Presidency’s Foreign Policy: What to Expect

      23 March, 2018

    • CO18037 | Putin’s Coming Presidency: Tougher for Russo-Western Relations?

      07 March, 2018

    • CO18014 | Russian-American Relations: What Impact on ASEAN?

      29 January, 2018

    • CO17233 | Russia’s Interest in North Korea Crisis

      12 December, 2017

    • CO17212 | Russia-ASEAN Relations: Where Are They Headed?

      09 November, 2017

    • CO17202 | Russia’s “Pivot” to the East: Short-lived with China?

      27 October, 2017

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External Publications

Authored Books

  • Life and Work in Post-Soviet Russia. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2020

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