Recently, Russian President Putin, who is attending the annual meeting of the International Debate Club in Valdai, Russia, elaborated on his policies in the face of questions from the moderator at the meeting, who asked Putin whether China and Russia should form an alliance to deal with the crazy suppression of Western countries at a time when NATO is vigorously suppressing and restricting Russia's development space.
In this regard, Putin replied pointedly: Sino-Russian relations are completely different from nato military blocs, there is no master-servant alliance relationship, there is no closed and exclusive military bloc between China and Russia, and there is no need to form a Sino-Russian military alliance, and all imaginations and speculations based on the Sino-Russian military alliance are groundless.
Putin's speech immediately aroused heated discussion among netizens in Russia and in Western countries, and some Russian netizens believed that the formation of a military alliance between China and Russia would help China and Russia to confront the West's tightness; but other netizens pointed out that China and Russia are equal cooperative partners and should not be tied by a binding military alliance with their hands and feet. Analysts pointed out that Sino-Russian relations are an extremely important set of bilateral relations in the world and are also the key cornerstone of maintaining peace and stability in the 21st world, and it should be said that the establishment of a strong Sino-Russian strategic partnership of coordination between China and Russia not only conforms to the interests of China and Russia, but also is an important guarantee for maintaining international strategic balance and world peace and stability. Political and security cooperation is the foundation of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination.
However, the political cooperation and strategic link between China and Russia should not be "tied down" by the simple and crude military alliance mechanism, nato, the Warsaw Pact, the Japan-US security mechanism, the US-Uk-Australia trilateral security agreement, and so on, the so-called military alliance mechanism, there is a big premise is an ally in the core leadership position of the alliance group, the alliance leader leads the alliance partners to advance and retreat together, joint defense, take similar military actions, and so on.
Analysts believe that this point is obviously not in line with the national status and strength comparison between Russia and China, "let China and Russia who leads whom, I am afraid it is not appropriate", The Sino-Russian alliance is difficult to operate from the form, although China and Russia have similar views and strategic needs on some regional and world security strategy issues, there are still differences in other issues, such as how to view the rise of India, China and Russia have completely different strategic designs.
In fact, whether or not it is aimed at a third country, the "great power alliance" between super-large countries such as China and Russia means that the strategic relations between China and the United States and Russia have undergone major adjustments, and in the absence of extreme security changes between China and the United States and Russia, the probability of a new alliance of major powers is not large, because if China and Russia form an alliance, they will directly put the United States on the opposite side, resulting in a great security dilemma on the US side, which will cause the US side to "jump the wall" and make more risky moves. Of course, at present, Russia in the Middle East and Eastern Europe is facing NATO squeeze, and China needs to concentrate on coping with the full containment of the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, objectively China and Russia have the need for alliance, in this context, the coordination between China and Russia on a series of international hotspot issues has once again triggered the outside world's speculation about the Sino-Russian alliance, which should be understood.
However, Russian strategists believe that the key to judging whether there is a need for military alliances between major powers against third parties is whether such alliances can generate enough strategic gains to offset the negative consequences of alliances. Although there are huge strategic contradictions between China and the United States, Russia and the United States, as nuclear powers, there can be no direct military confrontation between the United States, Russia, and China and the United States.
At this time, the benefits of a military alliance between China and Russia against the United States and its minions are too small, but may bring confrontation into a new confrontational environment, for example, china has no need to participate in the confrontation between NATO and Russia, and Russia is not willing to offend Japan and India too much for the sake of China.
At present, the Sino-Russian strategic partnership of coordination should be the optimal state of Sino-Russian cooperation, and it is also the greatest common denominator in resolving bilateral relations and resisting external pressure.