Nov 22,2013 Special Forum

Russia’s China Challenge in a Changing Asia: An American Perspective

Russia’s relations with China have steadily improved for about twenty years after a brief, strong, pro-Western tilt in Russian foreign policy right after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992.1 The weakening political position of the Gaidar government by late 1992 and the defeat of pro-Western liberal parties Russia’s Choice and Yabloko in the […]

Andrew Kuchins
Axis of necessity , complementarity , distrust , natural gas politics , oil politics , Russia’s pivot to Asia , Russian diversification in Asia , swing state