What a no-limits China-Russia friendship means for Europe
21 March 2022
On the opening day of the 2022 Winter Olympics, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin declared a “friendship between the two states with no limits, no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation,” promising to stand alongside each other on conflicts over Ukraine and Taiwan and to collaborate more against the West.
Has the West’s nightmare of a Sino–Russian relationship evolving into an “authoritarian alliance,” acting as an alternative centre of gravity to Western liberal democracies now become true?
