[who_would_fardels_bear]

Russia and China always butt buddies?

Have you heard of someone named Richard Nixon?

[Pox]

Yeah, and I can go back to Adam and Eve to make a point as well.

Yes, China, Russia, Iran and NK have always been butt buddies. Play semantics all you want.

[BroJoeK]

who_would_fardels_bear to pox #15: "Russia and China always butt buddies?
Have you heard of someone named Richard Nixon?"

pox #16: "Yes, China, Russia, Iran and NK have always been butt buddies.
Play semantics all you want."

who_would_fardels_bear: "Live in your fantasy world devoid of facts all you want."

Hostilities between CCP China and the old Soviet Union peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s, with armed conflict in 1969 over a border dispute.
China also opposed the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.

Since the end of the Afghan War in 1989 and the USSR collapse in 1991, China-Russia relations have steadily improved and are today as close as they ever were, even in the early days of the 1950s.

Sometimes we've seen it claimed that a US "wedge strategy" has helped to drive Russia and China apart in the past, that this was a good thing and that we should continue to apply a "wedge strategy" in today's geopolitical environment.

So, what exactly would such a "wedge strategy" look like?
Well... typically suggestions include:

1. Let's give Russia what it wants in Ukraine and

2. Let's give CCP China what it wants in Taiwan.

Oh yeah! That's a brilliant strategy, certain to drive Russia and China apart.
What could possibly go wrong?