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Apr 15, 2024 · China is backing Russia's war effort in Ukraine by helping Moscow in its biggest military buildup since the Soviet era, providing drone and missile technology, satellite imagery and machine...
- Introduction
- Are China and Russia Allies?
- How Do Their Foreign Policies and Interests Compare?
- What Are Major Challenges For The Relationship?
- What Are Their Economic Ties?
- What Are Their Military Ties?
China and Russia have a long, complicated history together, marked by periods of both cooperation and fierce strategic rivalry. The neighbors have strengthened ties over the past decade, but some experts question the depth of their strategic partnership, arguing that the countries’ alignment is driven more by their common rivalry with the United St...
China and Russia are not formal treaty allies and are not bound to come to the other’s defense. Nevertheless, their emerging strategic partnership has caused alarm in Washington. During a state visit to Stockholm, Sweden in September 2023, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) called the burgeoning China-Russia securit...
The Chinese and Russian political systems have some similarities: both are considered authoritarian regimes with power concentrated in the hands of a single, long-serving leader. China is a one-party state led by the Chinese Communist Party, while Russia is a multiparty system dominated by Putin’s United Russia party. Both governments have increasi...
Distrust. Many Chinese and Russian officials, business leaders, and citizens distrust each other—a dynamic often motivated by historical grievances or overt racism. Although Xi and Putin are friendly, previous leaders were not so close. Also, Chinese and Russian companies have expressed difficulties working with each other. Though the countries sha...
Although trade between the countries has increased over the past two decades—reaching an all-time high of $240 billion in 2023—their economic relationship is lopsided. Russia depends far more on China than vice versa, which has generated concerns in Moscow. For example, while China has become Russia’s number-one trade partner, Russia was only China...
China’s and Russia’s militaries have never fought alongside one another, but defense cooperation has increased since 2014. The countries have started to work together to develop missile warning systems, and they are boosting collaboration in space, including by integrating their satellite-based navigation systems. Since the 1950s, most of China’s i...
May 1, 2024 · May 1, 2024. The Biden administration on Wednesday announced nearly 300 new sanctions on international suppliers of military equipment technology that the administration said have been helping...
Feb 20, 2023 · Feb. 20, 2023, 12:04 PM UTC. By Jennifer Jett and Larissa Gao. HONG KONG — China hit back Monday against U.S. allegations that it may be providing Russia nonlethal military assistance in its war on...
May 7, 2023 · But what is indisputable is that China is making its move regarding Ukraine. And as it does so, Beijing has two agendas: the first is to try to eclipse the US. The second is to try to help Russia.
Apr 25, 2024 · BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - China must stop supporting Russia's war in Ukraine if it wants to enjoy good relations with the West, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday,...
Feb 24, 2023 · The US has warned this week that China was considering supplying lethal weapons to Russia, and that Chinese firms had already been supplying non-lethal dual-use technology - items which could...
