March 28, 2017

"A comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Russia is something that has not been taken seriously in the post-Cold War Western academic and 'think tank' communities. While it was implicitly recognized that a potential alignment between the two Eurasian great powers may have tremendous geopolitical ramifications and the potential to transform the existing international order in the most fundamental of ways, the materialization of such a scenario has constantly been viewed as baseless, insignificant, or ephemeral.

Experts of different stripes have been good at listing various potential pitfalls that are supposed to undermine any real progress in China-Russia strategic cooperation. Some argued that Russia was anxious over China's conventional military superiority, and would therefore  resist aligning militarily with China. Others believed that a closer China-Russia alignment would mean for Russia a semi-colonial status vis-à-vis China, to the extent that China might decide to take over the sparsely populated Siberia and Far East."

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