The Geopolitical Implications of Pushing Russia Closer and Closer to China

China and Russia have become natural partners for reasons that have nothing to do with us, says Vladimir Putin. "Russia alone can largely fuel China if that's what it comes down to," he adds. Russian needs secure borders in the east; there are not hundreds of millions of Chinese who want to move north or live in Siberia,. So the notion that somehow or another, they should be at war with each other is nonsense."