Russia and China claim to have established a "strategic partnership". Jennifer Anderson argues that this relationship merely overlays a diplomatic agenda established in the late 1980s, and that China's pragmatic, limited approach (coupled with Russia's domestic economic and political difficulties) have meant that the Sino-Russian strategic partnership is unwieldy and imprecise.

Authored by Anderson, Jennifer

Introduction; Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Normalisation and Partnership; Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Bilateral Relations; Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Central Asia and Mongolia; Chapter 4 Chapter 4 Asia and Beyond; Conclusion;