Liu Birong: China and Russia are also a new type of great power relationship

Author: Liu Birong

From June 5th to 7th, a country of countries in Russia for three days was visiting, celebrating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Russia, and also signed a joint statement that strengthened contemporary global strategy.The environment is facing severe challenges, determined to deepen strategic mutual trust, strengthen strategic cooperation, and firmly maintain strategic stability of global and regional regional.It can be said that it is the best moment in 75 years in China and Russia.

After 2012, China -Russia relations have improved significantly.He visited Russia 8 times and met with Russian President Putin 30 times on various occasions.Just this 3 -day interview, I talked once in Moscow, and went to St. Petersburg once again.In the past, China hoped to establish a new type of great power with the United States, and encountered a cold response. Now it uses actions to prove that China and Russia represent another new type of great power.In the past, people often hung on their mouths, and China and the United States constituted the G2 co -governance of the world, which has disappeared.The geopolitical situation has a whole flip due to the US -China trade war and China -Russia.

In the past 75 years, Sino -Russian relations have risen.There are Central China and the CPSU split, as well as the Bing Rong of Treasure Island. It was gradually returned to the normal development track until 1989 in 1989.But this time China -Russia's good career is different from before.First, it is not an alliance between the two countries and fights against the Cold War in the United States.Chinese scholars said that the two countries were not to counterattack the United States, but to control the international situation to avoid getting out of control.We also agree that in the joint statement, the two parties also said that they should use the United Nations as a platform, and also said that the two countries should defend basic international standards and international morality.Here we can see a paradox: the United States regards China and Russia as amendments, because the rise of these two countries is to change the pattern of power;The two countries need to come out to defend the order.Who is challenging order?Who is to maintain order?

The second place is different from the past China and the Soviet Union. In the past, the Soviet Union was the eldest brother, but now China's economic volume is 10 times that of Russia. China has no longer inferiority, so there is no pressure to communicate.But this also caused the two countries to have a cold and cold pattern.Now that the relationship between the two countries has improved, what can China get in economics?Some Russian scholars say that the Russian economy does not work, but its strongest is the scientific research capabilities. This should be the place where China can gain the most from Russia's oil and natural gas.

In the past, the West has always wanted to provoke Sino -Russian relations, such as the scope of the sphere of influence in Central Asia, and the Chinese threat theory of Siberia.However, both China and Russia have dealt with well in this regard, so they have not succeeded.After visiting Russia, he also participated in the Skywind Organization Summit in Kilgis with Putin, which shows that the two countries have developed a compatible interactive model in Central Asia.In the future, the cooperation between the two parties on other international affairs such as Iran is also expected.

What is really worth observing is the Arctic Channel.After global warming, the iceberg dissolves and the Arctic channel is opened.At the beginning of 2018, Beijing announced the Bing Silk Road Plan to prepare to develop a sea transportation channel through the Arctic Circle.This channel starts from the Bailing Strait in the east, extending to Norway along the northern part of Russia, connecting the three major economic centers of North America, East Asia and Western Europe.Russia welcomes China to invest in commercial projects in the Arctic, but China is not just that.Whether the North Pole will become a new conflict in the future and can continue to pay attention.

In the face of China and Russia to maintain strategic stability, how does the United States react?When Russia strengthened relations, the Western allies gathered Normandy in the World War II.What kind of political reality will such a picture projected?It is worth observing.

(The author is professor of the Department of Political Department of Soochow University)