China-Russia Relations focus on Joe Biden's Presidency: Putin's real intention in talking up a Russia-China alliance - by YOHEI ISHIKAWA

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first-ever public reference to the possibility of a Russia-China military alliance, but Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, told Nikkei Asia that Moscow's real intention with the suggestion is to check the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden.

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