China‐Russia Partnership: An Axis of Revisionism?
Journal: Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies
Year: 2025

ABSTRACT I examine the changing nature and characteristics of China‐Russia partnership in the context of their escalating rivalries with the US, using the two‐level explanatory framework. This article begins with an investigation of the causal impact of the shifting global power balance on China‐Russia relations at system‐level level, followed by an analysis of various domestic factors that shape the two revisionist powersʼ individual strategic behaviours at unit‐level level. I scrutinise three