China and Russia: a strategical partnership with many limits

The threat of a China-Russia alliance poses crucial geopolitical challenges to the United States and the European Union. However, the strength of their relation may not be as powerful as they declare.

In his September visit to Stockholm, the Republican president of the US home abroad Affairs Committee, typical Michael McCaul, warned that the strengthening relation between Russia and China was the most crucial “threat to Europe and the Pacific … since planet War II”. This viewpoint, as sensationalist as it appears, has any merit. Both China and Russia are nuclear-armed, both can paralyse the United Nations safety Council with their veto powers, both have in the last decade become more authoritarian at home, and both have engaged in a variety of malign activities that harm democracy abroad.