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The fact that China stood by Russia despite initial concerns lends credence to the idea that a previously transactional relationship is becoming more strategic. The Sino-Russian relationship had for decades been founded on energy and defence exports from Moscow to Beijing, while an element of mistrust lingered between the two uneasy neighbours.<\/p>\n
In recent years, that has been subsumed by thickening ties between the two and a growing awareness of shared strategic goals, particularly in building a bulwark against US influence in Asia.<\/p>\n
The Xi-Putin get-together is thus a chance for both to demonstrate to domestic and international audiences their growing bond. It also suggests an ongoing change in the relationship – one where Moscow is increasingly the one in need of Beijing\u2019s support.<\/p>\n
For now, both sides will leverage the opportunity to convey a united front despite Russia\u2019s difficulties in Ukraine. The tone of the meeting has already been set by the visit of third-ranked CCP official Li Zhanshu to Russia last week, where he talked about the \u201cunprecedented level\u201d of strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation.<\/p>\n
China and Russia may still have a vague mutual wariness, but circumstance and strategic necessity are pushing these frenemies closer.<\/p>\n
Christian Le Miere is a foreign policy adviser and the founder and managing director of Arcipel, a strategic advisory firm based in London.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] A ONCE TRANSACTIONAL RELATIONSHIP IS NOW STRATEGIC The fact that China stood by Russia despite initial concerns lends credence to the idea that a previously transactional relationship is becoming more strategic. The Sino-Russian relationship had for decades been founded on energy and defence exports from Moscow to Beijing, while an element of mistrust lingered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,64,6,44],"tags":[41,233,108,107],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-commentary","category-news","category-world","tag-china","tag-russia","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-xi-jinping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiaposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}