Dangerous Friends
The Sino-Russian Military Alliance
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
For a decade now, Russia and China have been cooperating in the arms production and military policy. Selective cooperation is increasingly turning into a structural one. With regard to arms exports, Moscow has dropped its reservations about know-how transfers to Beijing. Now, it is supplying weapons-grade uranium, which China can use to expand its nuclear arsenal. China and Russia’s common front against the United States, on the one hand, and Russia’s war against Ukraine and China's conflict over Taiwan, on the other, are welding the two regimes together. The closer the alliance between China and Russia, the more likely India’s break with Russia. The military alliance between the two autocracies poses a threat to the liberal world.
(Osteuropa 7-9/2023, pp. 263–273)