Publication

This monograph maintains that while Chinese-Russian relations have improved along important dimensions, security cooperation has remained limited, episodic and tenuous. However, the author argues, US national security planners should prepare for possible major discontinuities in Sino-Russian relations. He suggests that US officials should pursue a mixture of "shaping and hedging" policies that aim to avert a hostile Chinese-Russian alignment while preparing the United States to better counter one, should it nevertheless arise.