Washington Is Not Serious About Russia-China Rapprochement
(World News Russia)

While Washington´s experts and pundits continue taking Moscow´s pivot to Beijing with a grain of salt, China and Russia announced yet another joint mega-project that will help to accelerate the formation of what many dubbed the `Eurasian supercontinent.` From an American perspective, long historical grievances, border wars, and overwhelming mistrust between the two Eurasian powers are seen as permanent factors that will inevitably downgrade the Kremlin´s alignment with China´s Communist Party. Granted, Russia´s quasi-alliance with China has become a double-edged sword. On one hand, the Kremlin uses Beijing to balance against the United States and Japan; hence the sale of sophisticated...