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Neither in China, which apparently figures into Dugin's Eurasianist plans, but I was trying to look up his name (in Chinese) recently to see what popped up, and it seemed like he was practically unheard of there, although there were some articles on microblogging sites and a few newspapers talking about his ideas.

I wouldn't say they were entirely negative because his opposition to liberalism and U.S. hegemony is reasonable from their position, but they were pretty critical, viewing Duginism as a very "Russian" ideology that emerged in the 90s as a result of Russian geopolitical / territorial insecurity and an ideological void. Dugin proposes a territorial cocoon to protect Russia, which is vulnerable from different directions. There was one snarky comment that Russians can be "geopolitical heads" and don't pay enough attention to business and economics, which is probably true in Dugin's case but a bit unfair IMO, the reason Putin is still in power is because he has put the Russian economy on a relatively stable economic footing and I think understands Russia's future as a conduit for trade between -- and energy exports to -- Europe and China.

The rooted, organic land-based Eurasians vs. rootless seafaring Atlanticists also doesn't translate to Chinese conditions because they're trying to balance their land-based trading corridor with a maritime route. Chinese thinking can be all about balance and educated Chinese can be quite sophisticated that Americans look like provincial rubes in comparison. Dugin has taken to boosting China as a counterweight to the U.S., which is also a shift from the 90s when one of his books called for splitting off Tibet, East Turkestan and Inner Mongolia, and f the Chinese ever went back and read that wouldn't endear him to that crowd -- although probably irrelevant now.

Fun fact: Dugin did make an appearance in China where he debated Zhang Weiwei, an international relations professor and a kind of "public intellectual" to advance the Communist Party's external foreign policy worldview. In the debate, Zhang contrasted China's strategy of the "China Dream" and "community with shared future for mankind."

https://youtu.be/6rzqfmKx6rE

Russia's Victory Day parade is coming up. I wonder if the PLA will make an appearance? Chinese military T.V. is covering the preparations and the Russia's women soldiers have some cute new uniforms:

https://youtu.be/DKTNhZVhL2k