Geopolitics
The Anxiety of Dependence: Unpacking China's Paranoia Over a Shifting Russia
Beijing is deeply anxious that warming relations between the US and Russia, and between Russia and North Korea, could undermine China's strategic position by reducing Russia's dependence on China and shifting US focus towards the Asia-Pacific. This geopolitical paranoia exposes the fragility of so-called 'no-limits' partnerships and highlights how Western-centric power plays continue to manipulate and threaten the strategic autonomy of civilizational states in the Global South.
