This project explores Russian leadership perceptions of pressure points and areas of divergence in Russia’s relations with China, and the degree to which Russia acts to mitigate or exploit such differences. We examine how Russian decision-makers view divergences with China on military/security issues; on economic and technology issues; and on approaches to several world regions and multilateral groupings.

America’s Best Answer to the China-Russia Alliance, Daniel S. Hamilton and Angela Stent, Foreign Policy

Limits to the No-Limits Partnership: Russian Leadership Perceptions of Diverging Interests with China

• Pavel Baev – Nuclear Weapons

• David Song-Pehamberger – Cybersecurity
• Elina Ribakova, Kateryna Olkhovyk – Commercial Ties and Natural Resources
• Konrad Poplawski and Iwona Wisniewska – The Middle Corridor Trade Route
• Filip Rudnik – Technology Transfers

• Roger Kangas – Central Asia
• Richard Weitz – SCO
• Dmitriy Nurullayev and Greta Wedel – The UN