Russia fosters Chinese dependence

Russia fosters Chinese dependence

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Many Western observers were shocked not just by what they found within the new military doctrine that Russia adopted last month, but by what appeared to be missing.

for the first time in the country’s post-Soviet history named NATO — namely, its expansion — as the top threat to Russian security. It also made repeated mention of the country's readiness to respond to aggression with nuclear weapons

What the report lacked was any mention of Russia’s steadily rising eastern neighbor, China.

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This is a good 3 page article, it's fairly interesting.

Instead, Moscow has been seeking to develop ties with Beijing by forging security groupings like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, pushing for energy projects to integrate Russia with the East and encouraging investment to foster mutual dependence.

SCO might be quite powerful soon, perhaps a potential strong competitor to NATO.
It's the club everyone wants to join.

“Chinese economic expansion might influence Russian development, and Russia could lose leverage over the Asian part of the country,” said Lukyanov. “It’s not a military threat, it’s an economic or demographic one.”

Yes but as far as China is concerned though, it's the same thing!

SCO is very much something to keep an eye on this decade and as well as China/Russia relations outside of SCO.

It's going to be a hot summer!

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