What Is So Special about Beijing-Moscow Security Cooperation?

... Ukraine) are natural and even inevitable. Russia and China today are ready to "agree to disagree" without jeopardizing mutual trust or undermining opportunities for their strategic cooperation. Third, the visit of Li reconfirmed that China-Russia security cooperation is based not on the balance of power, but on a balance of interests. Traditionally, geopolitical and military cooperation within the international system was defined by the balance of powers between the major participants to such cooperation, more specifically—by the correlation of their military forces. A stronger partner always had the upper hand—this ...