By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia and China’s “no limits” partnership has strengthened considerably over the past three years; they have been driven together by the geopolitical clash between East and West.
History and reality show that China and Russia are good neighbors that cannot be moved away, and true friends who share wealth and woe,” Xi told Putin, according to China’s state news agency Xinhua. “The development strategies and foreign policies of China and Russia are for the long-term,
The greatest challenge for the democratic countries of Western civilization will be to break the criminal tandem of Beijing and Moscow, which aims to destroy the existing world order
Any effective counter to China's growing military and political muscle must include alliances and the use of soft power, although US foreign policy needs to become more focused and effective in light of increasingly constrained US resources,