The Strengthening China-Russia Nexus

Excerpt:  “The Sino-Russian relationship is closer and more interconnected in 2025 than it has ever been. The cooperation between Beijing and Moscow is a nexus—their relationship is a flexible and strategic knot of interconnections across the military, technological, economic, and political domains, and is not bounded by the structural rigidity of a formal defensive alliance. This Sino-Russian nexus has solidified against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. Moscow and Beijing have both exploited the circumstances of the war to deepen their strategic entanglement, and it has therefore become strategically impossible to separate them at this time. The PRC’s material support for the Russian war effort gives the PRC considerable influence over the outcome of the war in Ukraine. The PRC is undoubtedly watching the battlefield in Ukraine closely and observing international reactions to Russia’s aggression and likely hopes to apply those military and diplomatic lessons to its future endeavors in the western Pacific, particularly in the case of an invasion of Taiwan.”