Brothers in arms, yet again? Twenty-first century Sino-Russian strategic collaboration in the realm of defence and security

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ID12699765
AutoresJohn Watts (0000-0002-6769-7565, Swedish Defence University), Sofia K Ledberg (0000-0003-1097-1727, Swedish Defence University), Sofia Ledberg, Kjell Engelbrekt (0000-0003-3218-5647, Swedish Defence University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen16
Número4
Páginas427-449
Fecha de publicación2016-09-30
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDefence Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2436 • E-ISSN: 1743-9698
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14702436.2016.1238747
OpenAlexW2525114157
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas26

2014–2015 were years of turmoil for strategic relations, with Sino-Russian relations emerging as a particularly interesting set of ties to observe. This article asks whether recurrent Sino-Russian exhortations of friendship are mirrored by their strategic alignment in the defence and security realm, half a century after the end of the Sino-Soviet pact during the communist era. We examine the arms trade between the two countries and with regional partners, but also the recent pattern of bilateral and multilateral military exercises, as a combined test of the security and defence relationship. We are able to show that the image of friendship that both Moscow and Beijing like to promote, while apparent at the UN Security Council and within the BRICS group, remains constrained by rivalry in high-tech segments of the arms industry and by lingering concerns about the prospects of peer interference in their shared regional vicinity

Beijing · China · Economics · Friendship · Geopolitics · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Rivalry · Social science · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Russia and Soviet political economy

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