A Wary Embrace: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: What the China-Russia relationship means for the world

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With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances are deceptive. Beijing and Moscow have shown no capacity to cooperate on grand strategy or establish new international norms. This is no authoritarian alliance, but a partnership of strategic convenience - pragmatic, calculating and constrained.

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Bobo Lo is an independent analyst and former Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House. His latest book, Russia and the New World Disorder, was short-listed for the 2016 Pushkin House Prize, and was described by The Economist as the 'best attempt yet to explain Russia's unhappy relationship with the rest of the world'.