On June 6, Scowcroft Center deputy director Matthew Kroenig was quoted in Politico discussing China’s upper hand in its intensifying strategic partnership with Russia.
In a reverse from the Cold War pattern, Russia will be the junior partner to a more powerful China. That will irritate Putin.
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