Russia-China Relations : : Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?

Russia-China Relations : : Emerging Alliance or Eternal Rivals?

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Superior document:Global Power Shift Series
:
Kirchberger, Sarah.
TeilnehmendeR:
Sinjen, Svenja.
Wörmer, Nils.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Global Power Shift Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (325 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Russia-China Relations
  • Global Power Shift
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Introduction: Analyzing the Shifts in Sino-Russian Strategic Cooperation Since 2014
  • 1 Changing Perceptions of Sino-Russian Cooperation over the Years
  • 2 The Structure and Aims of This Volume
  • References
  • Part I: Mutual Perceptions and Narratives
  • Russiaś Strategic Outlook and Policies: What Role for China?
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Russiaś Global Strategic Outlook
  • 3 Origins of the ``Comprehensive Strategic Partnership ́́-- 4 The Military Dimension
  • 4.1 Parallelism Russia/Ukraine and China/Taiwan
  • 4.2 The Near and Middle East
  • 4.3 Venezuela
  • 5 The Economic Dimension
  • 6 The Systemic Dimension
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Imperialist Master, Comrade in Arms, Foe, Partner, and Now Ally? Chinaś Changing Views of Russia
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Russian ``Imperialism ́́-- 3 From ``Comrade in Arms ́́to the Sino-Soviet Split
  • 4 From Sino-Russian Border Clashes to Sino-US Rapprochement
  • 5 ``Strategic Partner ́́in a Unipolar World
  • 6 Sino-Russian Partnership in the Era of Sino-US Rivalry
  • 6.1 Balance of Power Politics
  • 6.2 Economic Cooperation
  • 6.3 State-Society and People-to-People Relations
  • 7 Conclusion
  • References
  • Domestic Politics: A Forgotten Factor in the Russian-Chinese Relationship
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Regime Survival: Domestic Structural Conditions
  • 3 Domestic Actors: The Case of the Russian Federation
  • 3.1 Beneficiaries
  • 3.2 Caught In-Betweens
  • 3.3 Converts
  • 4 Domestic Political Obstacles
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Part II: The Military Dimension of Sino-Russian Cooperation: Case Studies
  • Russian-Chinese Military-Technological Cooperation and the Ukrainian Factor
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Soviet Arms-Industrial Support for China.
  • 2.1 A Brief Period of Western Arms Transfers During the 1980s
  • 2.2 The Impact of the 1989 Arms Embargo Against China
  • 3 Post-Soviet Russiaś Interest in Delivering Arms Technologies to China
  • 3.1 A Dip in Russian-Chinese Arms Trade During 2005-2012
  • 4 The Impact of Ukrainian Arms Transfers to China Before 2014
  • 5 Chinese-Ukrainian Defense Cooperation Since 2014
  • 6 A Revival of Russian-Chinese Defense-Industrial Relations After 2014
  • 7 The Outlook for Further Russian-Chinese Defense-Industrial Cooperation
  • References
  • Russia-China Naval Partnership and Its Significance
  • 1 From Laying the Foundations of the PLA Navy to Breaking Up
  • 2 Closing the Technological Gap with Russiaś Help
  • 3 Intellectual Property Issues
  • 4 Simulating an Alliance
  • 5 Shared Security Interests and Perceptions of Inferiority
  • 6 Seeking Political and Strategic Benefits
  • 7 Operational Benefits
  • 8 Lasting Distrust
  • 9 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chinese and Russian Military Modernization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 China: Exploiting the 4IR Through Military-Civil Fusion
  • 2.1 Chinese Military Modernization: Mechanization and Informatization
  • 2.2 Intelligentized Warfare and Artificial Intelligence
  • 2.3 Intelligentized Warfare and Military-Civil Fusion
  • 3 Russia: Weaponizing Artificial Intelligence
  • 3.1 The Soviet Era: The Military-Technical Revolution (MTR)
  • 3.2 4IR Exploitation Under Putin
  • 3.3 Exploiting the 4IR
  • 4 Chinese and Russian Prospects for Exploiting the 4IR for Military Modernization
  • 5 Prospects for Sino-Russian Cooperation in 4IR Technologies
  • References
  • China-Russia Cooperation in Nuclear Deterrence
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Nuclear Weapons and Great Power Competition
  • 3 Evolution of Moscow-Beijing Nuclear Relations
  • 4 Nuclear Issues from Gorbachev to the Ukraine Crisis.
  • 4.1 Establishing the New Relationship
  • 4.2 Joint Opposition to US Ballistic Missile Defense
  • 4.3 Areas of Discord
  • 5 Nuclear Cooperation Since the Ukraine Crisis
  • 5.1 Continued Opposition to US Missile Defense
  • 5.2 Coordination in Northeast Asia
  • 5.3 Missile Defense and Early Warning
  • 5.4 Post-INF Cooperation
  • 5.5 Multilateral Arms Control
  • 6 Prospects for Cooperation in Nuclear Deterrence
  • References
  • Part III: Spatial and Multilateral Aspects of Sino-Russian Cooperation: Case Studies
  • Digital Authoritarianism and Technological Cooperation in Sino-Russian Relations: Common Goals and Diverging Standpoints
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Digital Surveillance and Censorship in China and Russia
  • 3 Dilemmas for Western Tech Companies
  • 4 Technology, Decoupling and Chinese and Russian Investment Strategies
  • 5 Sino-Russian Cooperation and Its Limits
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Sino-Russian Scientific Cooperation in the Arctic: From Deep Sea to Deep Space
  • 1 Discourse Power and People-to-People Diplomacy
  • 2 Russian Scientific Cooperation with Chinese Defence Universities
  • 2.1 Collaboration in Undersea Surveillance and Hydroacoustics
  • 2.2 Jointly Building an Underwater Great Wall
  • 2.3 Space Cooperation and Implications for Security
  • 2.4 Military-Civil Fusion in Arctic Underwater Acoustics
  • 3 Conclusion
  • References
  • Partnership Without Substance: Sino-Russian Relations in Central and Eastern Europe
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Strategic Context
  • 2.1 The CEE Region in Russian and Chinese Foreign Policy
  • 3 The Awkward Squad: Serbia, Hungary, Belarus, and Ukraine
  • 4 17+1 = Trouble. The Rise and Fall of China-Led Multilateralism
  • 5 The Scorecard
  • 5.1 Looking Ahead
  • References
  • Cooperation Between Russia and China in Multilateral Organizations: A Tactical or a Strategic Alliance?
  • 1 Introduction.
  • 2 Priorities, Commonalities and Differences
  • 2.1 The Priorities of Russia and China in Geneva-Based Forums
  • 2.2 Challenging the Narrative
  • 2.3 Strategic Personnel Policy
  • 3 Cooperation of Russia and China in Geneva-A Tactical or a Strategic Alliance?
  • 3.1 Dismiss Criticism of Domestic and Foreign Policies
  • 3.2 Shaping a Different Narrative-Through Policies and Personnel
  • 3.3 Defensive Stance on Reform-A State-Centric Vision of Multilateralism
  • 3.4 Russia and China as Beacons of the Autocratic Alliance in Multilateral Bodies
  • 4 Options for the West
  • 4.1 Stronger Engagement in Multilateral Forums
  • 4.2 A More Strategic Personnel Policy
  • 4.3 Building Alliances
  • 4.4 Leading by Example
  • References
  • Part IV: The Way Forward: How Could the West Cope with Russia and China?
  • What a Military Alliance Between Russia and China Would Mean for NATO
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 What an Emerging Military Alliance Between Russia and China Could Look Like
  • 2.1 Examples from History and the Lessons the West Can Learn from Them
  • 2.2 Implications and Consequences of a ``Model B ́́Alliance-Dangerous and Not Unlikely
  • 2.3 A ``Nightmare Scenario ́́Based on ``Model B:́́ War Between China and the USA in the Indo-Pacific Creates an Opportunity fo...
  • 3 The Impact of a Russian-Chinese De Facto Alliance on Europeś Security
  • 3.1 Consequences of a Russian-Chinese Military Alliance for Peacetime Relationships
  • 3.2 Consequences of a Russian-Chinese Military Alliance for International Crisis Management
  • 3.3 Consequences of a Russian-Chinese Military Alliance for Deterrence and Defense in Crisis and Conflict
  • 3.3.1 Political Aspects
  • 3.3.2 Military-Operational Aspects
  • 3.4 The Possible Impact on Russiaś Risk Calculus
  • 3.5 The Impact on NATOś Risk Calculus and Most Vulnerable Point
  • 3.6 Consequences for NATOś Defense Posture.
  • 4 Concluding Recommendations
  • References
  • Options for Dealing with Russia and China: A US Perspective
  • 1 The Problem Set
  • 2 The Key Assumptions
  • 3 Building a Workable Strategy
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • The Way Forward: How Should Europe Deal with Russia and China?
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Relevance of History
  • 3 Can the Russian-Chinese Alliance be Broken?
  • 4 What Kinds of War Contingencies Do we Have to Reckon with in the Event that the Russian-Chinese Axis Persists?
  • 5 What Is the Role of `Europe?́
  • 5.1 Acknowledging the Existence and Relevance of a Russian Military Threat
  • 5.2 Rethinking: What Might be the Worst Case?
  • 5.3 Rethinking Europeś Relationship with China
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Conclusion: Connecting the Dots and Defining the Challenge
  • 1 Structural Incentives for Further Russian-Chinese Cooperation
  • 2 Evidence Pointing to Differences and Lack of Cooperation: An Uneven Picture
  • 3 Defining the Challenge to Europe, NATO and the US
  • 4 Areas for Future Research
  • References
  • Select Bibliography.

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