A WARY EMBRACE: WHAT THE CHINA RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP MEANS FOR THE WORLD

With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics?

Join us for the launch of A Wary Embrace, a new Lowy Institute Paper published by Penguin Random House Australia with Bobo Lo. 

In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances are deceptive. Beijing and Moscow have shown no capacity to cooperate on grand strategy or establish new international norms. This is no authoritarian alliance, but a partnership of strategic convenience – pragmatic, calculating and constrained.