title: STRUCTURAL SOURCES OF SINO-RUSSIAN DISTRUST
abstract: In recent decades, China and Russia decades have adopted accommodation, normalisation and convergence strategies that transformed their cooperation into a comprehensive strategic partnership. Despite having this strategic alignment, several issues still constrain their long-term relations, such as divergent views and assessment of the world order, imbalance in bilateral trade and investment, competition in their respective spheres of influence, Russiansâ fear of a Chinese immigrant onslaught, 
journal: Trames Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences