Axis of convenience : Moscow, Beijing, and the new geopolitics /

Axis of convenience : Moscow, Beijing, and the new geopolitics / Bobo Lo.

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Few relationships have been as misunderstood as the "strategic partnership" between Russia and China. Official rhetoric portrays it as the very model of international cooperation: Moscow and Beijing claim that ties are closer and warmer than at any time in history. In reality, however, the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lo, Bobo, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Geopolitics > Russia (Federation)
Geopolitics > China.
Geopolitics.
Diplomatic relations.
Russia (Federation) > Foreign relations > China.
China > Foreign relations > Russia (Federation)
China.
Russia (Federation)
Table of Contents:
  • Cooperation, ambiguity and tension
  • The burden of history
  • Strategic partnership: image and reality
  • The "yellow peril," engagement in the Russian far East
  • "Peaceful rise" and the shifting Sino-Russian balance
  • Cooperation and competition in Central Asia
  • East Asia-- arena of the great powers
  • The geopolitics of energy
  • The grand chessboard revisited-- Russia, China, and the United States
  • Conclusion, from "strategic partnership" to strategic tension.

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