China and Russia are finding a common enemy in the West, and that is leading them towards a stronger partnership
China and Russia are moving into a political alliance as increasing Western pressure brings them closer.
While the US-Western Europe relationship produced NATO, the world’s most powerful alliance and probably one of the most enduring military pacts of all time, Moscow and Beijing have long been suspicious of each other. “It’s interesting to see some of the things they are talking about. So we have recently seen the Russians talking about AUKUS,” says Pantucci. AUKUS is formed between Australia, the UK and the US to sell nuclear submarines to Sydney and many experts see it as a Western political leveraging against China.
Floating excavators prepare an underwater trench for the North Stream 2 pipeline close to Lubmin, Germany. The project, which bypasses Ukraine, concerns the Western alliance a lot. “So it is something China has nothing to do with and it’s not relevant to China. And yet the Chinese foreign ministry has still felt the need to express a view on this,” Pantucci points out. Esref Yalinkilicli, a Moscow-based Eurasia analyst, says the China-Russia “tactical alliance” in the post Cold War period can get stronger and might even turn into a strategic partnership despite some fears in Moscow’s political establishment regarding Chinese domination.
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