from asia times online.......
"Putin is traveling to China against a much bigger backdrop of Russia's relations with the West, especially the United States. Not only has the US-Russia "reset" ground to a halt, things are actually looking down as if the clock has been rewound to an earlier, pre-Barack Obama, era.
Across the board, the Obama administration is resuscitating contentious issues - principally, missile defense, Caspian rivalries, a "greater Central Asia" strategy, and so on. These issues also happen to impact on China's core interests, and the big question is to what extent Moscow and Beijing will regard it useful or expedient to coordinate their stances"..............READ MORE
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