In March of 1969, Chinese troops ambushed and killed a Soviet border
patrol on an island near the Chinese-Russian border. Fighting on and
near the island lasted for months and ended with hundreds of casualties.
Fifty years later, the ferocity of the skirmish between Mao Zedong’s
China and Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet Union seems to belong to a very
distant past—so distant, indeed, that many foreign-policy experts are convinced that an anti-U.S. alliance between the two countries is emerging.
Yet even half a century on, such an assessment stretches the evidence
beyond what it can bear. On closer inspection, Chinese-Russian economic,
foreign policy, and military cooperation is less than impressive. The
history of relations between the two countries is fraught, and they play
vastly different roles in the world economy, making a divergence in
their objectives all but unavoidable. In short, reports of a
Russian-Chinese alliance have been greatly exaggerated.....
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