Although Russia and China claim to have established a "strategic partnership," Anderson here argues that this relationship merely overlays a diplomatic agenda established in the late 1980s. That is, China's pragmatic and limited approach, coupled with Russia's economic and political difficulties, have produced a Sino-Russian strategic partnership which is unwieldy and imprecise.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Normalisation and Partnership; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Bilateral Relations; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Central Asia and Mongolia; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Asia and Beyond; Conclusion;