Sino-Russian Relations in Triangular Contexts

Author(s): Gilbert Rozman
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 91
Pages: 5-7
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2011

Sino-Russian relations are being tested in triangular contexts around Asia, involving national identities as well as national interests. South Asia poses the most direct bilateral conflict, followed by Southeast Asia. Central Asia and Mongolia is likely to be the most serious. Divergence over Japan and the Korean peninsula is bound to grow. Given lingering preoccupation with the United States, only a shift in Russian national identity is likely to bring these differences with China to the fore.

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