The Sino-Russian Partnership of Strategic Coordination: From Diplomatic Coordination to Common Development

Liu Fenghua

Abstract: Since China and Russia established a partnership of strategic coordination, the diplomatic coordination has been the main field of their strategic cooperation most of the time. Their diplomatic coordination is mainly reflected in two aspects–maintaining peripheral and global security, while devoting to establishing a new international political and economic order together; supporting each other's efforts to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity. In 2014, China and Russia started their collaboration on natural gas, enlarged their economic and military technological cooperation and worked together on the promotion of the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB). All those indicate that the partnership of strategic coordination between the two sides had entered into a new era of common development. The basic content of common development is that Beijing and Moscow will connect their economic and social development strategies to regional integration strategies on the basis of maintaining the current high-level diplomatic coordination, in order to fully exploit the potential for this bilateral cooperation as well as realize common development.

Keywords: Sino-Russian partnership of strategic coordination, strategic coordination, diplomatic coordination, common development

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, China and Russia carried on the Sino-Soviet relations and soon established a partnership of strategic coordination on equality, mutual trust and oriented toward the 21st century. After the development for nearly 20 years, the Sino-Russian strategic coordination has achieved fruitful results in various fields. The bilateral strategic partnership has witnessed significant accomplishment and become a model of the relations of neighboring countries as well as of major powers after the end of the Cold War.