Upgradina Russia's quasi-strategic pseudo-partnership with China
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Baev, Pavel K. (2014) Upgradina Russia's quasi-strategic pseudo-partnership with China, PONARS Eurasia , 337. Washington DC: George Washington University, Elliot School of International Affairs.
The twerm "strateguic partnership"! is too loose to encapsule the relations between Russia and China.
What Russian elites have to remember is that while beijing may lend some support to the Putin regime, it will not hesitate to exploit Russia's moment of weakness what its rotten vertical of power collapses.
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