En-Lai Tang
Why the United States Doesn’t Consider Closer Bilateral Chinese-Russian Relations as A Security Threat? [View PDF]
ABSTRACT
Chinese-Russian relations play an important role in the multipolar world order, both countries signed treaties and established the strategic partnership. When Xi Jinping became president in 2013, Russia was his first foreign destination after becoming president. And Russian president Vladimir Putin also claimed that the relationship is “in its best period in history” and that the bilateral cooperation has already reached a higher level of comprehensive strategic partnership. Now the two great powers are getting closer and may cooperate to counterbalance the superpower, United States. These two countries could be a threat to the United States. What is the United States’ concern about the Chinese-Russian relations? Will America be worried about its affection when the China-Russia relationship gets better? This article is trying to answer why the United States doesn’t consider the closer bilateral Chinese-Russian relations as a security threat? By defining what is a threat and presenting Chinese-Russian Contemporary relationships, then triangle relationships to analyze and finally to give three reasons. First, the US-Chinese relations is the most important and the best in the triangle relations and the priority of the US policy for China and Russia is trade and economy, and both countries need to have economic cooperation with United States. The second one is the mistrust and suspicion remain between China and Russia. And the third factor is that Chinese Russian strategic partnership can be doubtful.
Keywords: Chinese-Russian relations, a security threat