title: Russia and China
abstract: Post-Soviet Russia’s relationship with China now spans three decades. While relations began to improve under Gorbachev and improved further under Yeltsin, with talks on the border, it has been under Vladimir Putin’s administration that relations have reached a new level. The Ukraine crisis that began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea, then accelerated with the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, has highlighted a number of areas of the relationship: the power imbalance between Russia and Ch