Wary Embrace - A Lowy Institute Paper
Subtitle: What the China-Russia Relationship Means for the World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780143786009
Subjects: Geopolitics; China, foreign relations, soviet union; Russia (federation), foreign relations
Description: With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics? In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances are deceptive. Beijing and Moscow have shown no capacity to cooperate on grand strategy or establish new international norms. This is no authoritarian alliance, but a partnership of strategic convenience - pragmatic, calculating and constrained.