Rapprochement or Rivalry?: Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia: Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia

The emerging relationship between China and Russia is perhaps the most important force redefining international relations in post-Cold War Asia. In the past five years, Russia and China have built a strategic partnership aimed at the 21st century, a development that deeply worries some Western observers and puzzles others. In this first comprehensive study of Russian-Chinese relations, Sherman Garnett and a team of 15 U.S., Russian, and Chinese scholars analyze the most important issues pos...