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Velina Tchakarova

Velina Tchakarova

Velina Tchakarova is director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria and peer board member of the Defence Horizon Journal. She is a lecturer at the Real World Risk Institute and a member of the Strategic and Security Policy Advisory Board of the Science Commission at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence. Velina holds an MA from Heidelberg University, Germany, and a BA from the University for World and National Economy, Bulgaria.

Moscow and Beijing’s ability to influence global affairs depends largely on their coordination. China’s economic support made Putin’s invasion of Ukraine possible, while Russia is keeping the West diverted from competition in the Indo-Pacific.

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