{"id":4442,"date":"2015-01-12T20:11:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2015-01-12T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T01:11:20","slug":"a-new-sino-russian-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"A New Sino-Russian Alliance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 dir=\"LTR\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/russia-china-alliance-by-joseph-s--nye-2015-01\" target=\"_blank\">A New Sino-Russian Alliance?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-line-id=\"bfd2de4d6ca4497db649bf6c6bc045c4\">CAMBRIDGE \u2013 Some analysts believe that 2014 ushered in a new era of Cold War-style geopolitics. Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea was met with heavy economic sanctions from Europe and the United States, weakening Russia\u2019s ties with the West and leaving the Kremlin eager to strengthen ties with China. The question is whether Russia will manage to build a real alliance with the People\u2019s Republic.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"74d0c4349e1f48d0ae56f5fcea78d0b1\">At first glance, it seems plausible. Indeed, traditional balance-of-power theory suggests that US primacy in power resources should be offset by a Sino-Russian partnership.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"234344ccbe2e41acaca73d1e13bc184a\">Perhaps more convincing, there seems to be historical precedent for such a partnership. In the 1950s, China and the Soviet Union were allied against the US. After US President Richard Nixon\u2019s opening to China in l972, the balance shifted, with the US and China cooperating to limit what they viewed as a dangerous rise in the Soviet Union\u2019s power.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"7a35ef4c33c04499985ff3f468691844\">With the collapse of the Soviet Union, that\u00a0<em>de facto<\/em>\u00a0US-China alliance ended, and a China-Russia rapprochement began. In 1992, the two countries declared that they were pursuing a \u201cconstructive partnership\u201d; in 1996, they progressed toward a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d; and in 2001, they signed a treaty of \u201cfriendship and cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\nRead more at http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/russia-china-alliance-by-joseph-s&#8211;nye-2015-01#WoUPW2M50rsJT1Aq.99<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Sino-Russian Alliance? CAMBRIDGE \u2013 Some analysts believe that 2014 ushered in a new era of Cold War-style geopolitics. Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea was met with heavy economic sanctions from Europe and the United States, weakening Russia\u2019s ties with the West and leaving the Kremlin eager to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,694,2619,742,821],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-russia","tag-sino-russian-alliance","tag-soviet-union","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}