The Economic Relationship Between Russia and China

Yats: At first glance, russian and chinese leaders have so many shared interests. But as with so many of these relationships, you start burrowing down into it a little bit. And one of the obvious ones, i think, is central asia. This is somewhere, it's a region vitally important to russia. It's part of this territory the vladimir putin was talking about as having been lost when the soviet union collapsed. Very, very important for russia to be able to rebuild that strategic depth in central asia to its south.very important for china too. Chinese want primarily its it highways to the wider world, running through