Strategische Reibung: indo-pazifische Bordsteine auf China und Russland

Submission Statement: As geopolitical gravity shifts towards Asia, the Indo-Pacific has become a theater of great power rivalry and a testing ground for new alignments. Among the more visible developments is the evolving relationship between China and Russia, often described as a “no-limits” partnership since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This framing, however, risks overstating the depth and coherence of what remains an uneven, interest-based relationship. What appears as convergence from a distance is often fragmented in practice, shaped less by coherent partnership than by the actions of Indo-Pacific countries.