The Russia-China Relationship

Russia-China relationship is an alignment and it's clearly not an alliance in the kind of sense that we are used to seeing. There is this question of what Gil Rosman would call you know shared identity i.e. both countries stand together against some collective west or some western menace. That is something that unites them beyond the mere expediency and the requirements of each regime. The change in russia's relationship with the west after its full blown unjustified invasion is definitely a very important firm in the year.