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China & the Geopolitics of Central Asia

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The Strategic Romance Between China and Russia

I think it's a strategic romance because if we wouldn't have Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in power, they wouldn't have such a great rapport with each other. And it also is strategic because this is not only about their personal relationship, but also about objective reasons for China and Russia. Together, they have huge border. Their economies are very complimentary towards each other, and their political regimes are very not like liberal democracies. Let's put it that way. Those questions, of course, bring them closer together, but the anti-Americanism, both in Russia and in China, is something that is creating this additional glue between these two political regimes That is something that they can consolidate around and

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