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🇨🇳🇷🇺The China-Russia relationship has clearly grown closer and become a more potent threat over the past four years. Despite mismatched power and competing interests, this is a partnership that the US, Europe, and the world must take seriously. cepa.org/comprehensive-…

"Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have come to a meeting of the minds on some very fundamental things about world order and about their interests." @Walker_CT While Russia may be the weaker partner in the relationship, Beijing and Moscow have aligned around a shared vision of global power. China benefits from Russia's confrontation with the West, while Russia relies on Chinese economic, diplomatic, and informational support. Read the full report, The China-Russia Meta Threat: The Architecture of Authoritarian Power, below. cepa.org/comprehensive-… #ChinaRussia #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics #Russia #China

A Ukrainian sea drone exploded in Romania's port of Constanta on Friday after Russian jamming. A Russian Geran-2 hit a Galati apartment building this month. Russian-launched or Russian-redirected, it's the same shadow campaign on NATO's eastern flank. apnews.com/article/drone-…

"With the benefit of hindsight, it is easier to see that as Putin was planning the 2014 occupation of Crimea and infiltration of eastern Ukraine, Xi was simultaneously adopting a more assertive and confrontational posture for China in the South China Sea." @Walker_CT | cepa.org/comprehensive-…

What the West Gets Wrong About Russia and China - new @cepa report challenges Western assumptions: that countries must share values to cooperate. Instead: make decisions based on outcomes, economic interests, security concerns, & infrastructure needs not ideological alignment.

"There's deep unease with the idea that Vladimir Putin is essentially mortgaging Russia's future, at least in part, to China." @Walker_CT As ties between Beijing and Moscow deepen, Russia's growing dependence on China is raising questions about the long-term balance of the partnership and the future of the authoritarian alliance. Read the full report, The China-Russia Meta Threat: The Architecture of Authoritarian Power, below. cepa.org/comprehensive-… #ChinaRussia #NationalSecurity #Geopolitics #Russia #China

Russia’s Threadbare Air Defenses | “For a country that has built its foreign policy on the notion of encirclement, Russia is surprisingly bad at defending itself.” @DVKirichenko cepa.org/article/russia…

Can the Internet be Childproofed? | “But the damning verdicts and fines fail to answer how to prevent the damages. They punish. They don’t repair.” @AndaBologa cepa.org/article/can-th…

The Threat of a Europe-China Trade War | “With the US summit behind it, China is squaring up for the next defining trade battle. It’s very confident that it will win.” Michael Sheridan cepa.org/article/the-th…

“Rather than dismissing what some call the Sino-Russian 'marriage' as a loose bond of convenience, democracies should regard it as profoundly dangerous for all those who value freedom, security, and prosperity, and prepare their policy responses accordingly.” @Walker_CT #RigaStratComDialogue cepa.org/comprehensive-…

"China has purchased large volumes of sanctioned Iranian oil, and Chinese buyers have worked closely with Iran to build what U.S. researchers and officials describe as one of the world's largest sanctions-evasion networks." @Walker_CT newsweek.com/china-and-russ…

The label "alliance" does not capture what the China-Russia relationship is. Understanding what comes next means moving past it, and quickly. Click below to read more. 👇 cepa.org/comprehensive-…

The war in Iran is the latest example of this partnership in action: both nations have moved to support Tehran economically, militarily, and informationally. How this impacts relations between the two sides remains to be seen.

🇨🇳🇷🇺The China-Russia relationship has clearly grown closer and become a more potent threat over the past four years. Despite mismatched power and competing interests, this is a partnership that the US, Europe, and the world must take seriously. cepa.org/comprehensive-…