Diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation between Russia and China is solid and continues to grow. This trend is deeply troubling for US political and media elites, most of whom are fervent defenders of America's declining global hegemony. They can hardly claim that Russian-Chinese cooperation was unpredictable, considering that Washington's clumsy and inept policies were the main cause, as many had predicted. The hostile measures that post-Cold War US administrations pursued against Moscow effectively pushed Russia into Beijing's arms. Putin and other Kremlin leaders have repeatedly reminded US officials of the tacit assurances that President George H.W. Bush and his top advisers had given Moscow that NATO would not expand eastward after the incorporation of a reunified Germany. Instead of pursuing a conciliatory approach, Bush's successors took several provocative actions, including admitting former Warsaw Pact allies into NATO, along with several states that em...
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