NEW DIMENSIONS OF THE RUSSO-CHINESE STRATEGIC AND MILITARY-POLITICAL PARTNERSHIP. REGIONAL ASPECTS
The article examines opportunities for expansion of the Russian-Chinese security cooperation under the circumstances when both countries' relations with the US are growing increasingly tense. Prerequisites for a substantial intensification of this cooperation arose due to the adoption by Washington of important doctrines and strategies (national security, defense, nuclear posture review) identifying both China and Russia as adversaries, as well as to the dramatic increase of the US economic pressure on both countries. Another manifestation of the rivalry sharpening is the started implementation of the Indo-Pacific region concept by the US. The possible reaction of Moscow and Beijing could be boosting the role of the newly expanded Shanghai Cooperation Organization in both security and economics.