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Strategic Interaction between Russia and China: A Basis for Development of Bilateral Cooperation:
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In this article, the authors analyzed the potential for strategic partnership between the two countries, and the common vision of the development of the system of international relations was determined by the inner logic of dynamics of Russian-Chinese relations, as well as by understanding of responsibility for the future of the world on the part of great powers having the territories covering a larger part of the Eurasian mainland.Abstract:
On 25 April 1996 the Joint Russian-Chinese Declaration signed in Beijing set forth the idea of a possible Russia-China strategic interaction in the twentyfirst century. Initially, the idea had been formulated to sustain and develop the ’long-term and stable relations of good neighbourliness, friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation’ between the two states that would ’correspond to the vital interests of the two nations and facilitate preservation and consolidation of peace, stability and development in Asia and in the world at large’.’ The Joint Russian-Chinese Communique of 26 June 1997 went further to address the active and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries in various spheres, in conformity with the principles as fixed in the two RussianChinese Declarations. In 1996 the two parties, while assessing the prospects of RF-PRC relations, applied the new formula: ’to develop relations of equalright confidential partnership, aimed at strategic interaction in the twenty-first century’.3 Understanding of such events and the common vision of the prospects of development of the system of international relations were determined by the inner logic of dynamics of Russian-Chinese relations, as well as by understanding of responsibility for the future of the world on the part of great powers having the territories covering a larger part of the Eurasian mainland. While analysing the prospects for strategic partnership between the two countries, it is necessary to take account that construction of strategic partnership relations is a creative process leaving no room for any dogmatic approachread more
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