Limited Defensive Strategic Partnership: Sino-Russian rapprochement and the driving forces
Titel:
Limited Defensive Strategic Partnership: Sino-Russian rapprochement and the driving forces
Auteur:
Li, Chenghong
Verschenen in:
The journal of contemporary China
Paginering:
Jaargang 16 (2007) nr. 52 pagina's 477-497
Jaar:
2007-08
Inhoud:
The deepening rapprochement between China and Russia, those two formidable continental powers, constitutes one of the most noteworthy phenomena in post-Cold War world affairs. Through detailed investigation of this vital bilateral relationship over a variety of issue areas, we characterize the current Sino-Russian relations as a limited defensive strategic partnership, with strategicness constituting the core of the Sino-Russian relationship. More than that, we further argue that the Sino-Russian rapprochement is externally-driven rather than internally-driven. More specifically, realism's balance of power theory, or its variety balance of threat theory, provides a relatively convincing explanation regarding the increasingly strengthened Sino-Russian strategic partnership. In a roughly chronological way, this paper will demonstrate how America's increasing unilateralism in its foreign policy approaches was correlated with, and thus contributed to, the deepening rapprochement between China and Russia.
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