23 February 2025

China Doesn’t Want to Lead an Axis

Sergey Radchenko

China and Russia’s 2022 proclamation of a “no limits” partnership with “no ‘forbidden’ areas” has had a far-reaching effect. The agreement implied that Beijing and Moscow were about to resurrect their long-defunct alliance that, when it briefly bound the two powers in the 1950s, projected a formidable threat that the United States could not afford to leave unchallenged.

Regardless of their various disagreements, Chinese President Xi Jinping has called Russian President Vladimir Putin his “dear friend” and was overheard in March 2023 telling him that the two of them were together “driving changes unseen in a century.” Their frequent meetings have


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