China & Russia

[Anomalocaris]

Russia and China has long and deep historic grievances.    Dictators who secure their own grasp on power by fanning ethnic and xenophobic feelings are unlikely to be able to bury ethic grievances, much less trust each other to bury their grievances.     So mutual suspicion and awareness that the end of any partnership is but one backstab away will keep them from becoming closely collaborating Allie’s.      So however Much kinship they might appear to have through their modes of governance and whatever strategic interest they may appear to share, their very forms of government makes it unlikely for Russia and China to ever become close coordinating partners.     Their partnership might be more similar to those between germany and Japan than those between the Allie’s, but with rather less collabration because German and Japan didn’t have mutual territorial disputes.