title: Not Just ‘Convenient’: China and Russia's New Strategic Partnership in the Age of Geopolitics
abstract: The argument made here runs counter to that often found in the more mainstream literature on the China-Russia relationship. This literature is of course varied and rich; it does not tell a single story. But amongst a very large number of experts the view has been – and in many respects remains – that there will always be much more that divides Moscow and Beijing than unites them. This I suggest is not only contradicted by an increasingly large body of evidence, it also runs the very real risk of