The war in Ukraine is sending Russia-China relations in new directions: While the Ukraine crisis may put some strain on the Chinese-Russian relationship, it has also spurred deeper collaboration between them.
in 1995, Beijing has been avoidant of confronting the US militarily. Aside from limited skirmishes in its border regions with India, China has preferred using its economic power rather than its military to pressure other countries into submission in recent decades.
But China’s assistance to Russia will raise fears among China’s neighbours with their own disputes with Beijing. This support being provided to Russia by China could be enough to galvanise coordinated regional antagonism toward Beijing, supported by a heightened US military presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Despite these real and potential consequences, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has already instigated greater cooperation between China and Russia — a trend that will only continue. Russia’s need to shore up its situation may have expanded China’s leverage over it, but both Beijing and Moscow are well aware of the need to work together to undermine the US dominance in world affairs — and they see the wider global instability resulting from the conflict in Ukraine as an effective way to do so.
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