Sarah Paine — How Russia sabotaged China's rise

People are worried about whether there's going to  be an enduring relationship with China and Russia.

If you look at this picture, the relations  look more glacial than cordial and the little

one's hauling on the arm of the big one.  One wonders about that. It turns out my

expertise is on Russo-Chinese relations. That's what I studied in graduate school.

My dissertation was a history of their border  from the Opium Wars in the mid-19th century