Challenges to China's Russian policy in early 21st century.

In the beginning of the twenty-first hundred Sino-Russian relations have achieved a certain number of significant breakthroughs, but their differences in strategic interests have been expos in view of the U.S.-Russian agreement to restore their nuclear weapons and Russia's implicit concurrence to the Bush administration's withdrawal from the Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty. Sino-Russian economic exchanges have been progressing well in new years, bilateral trade exceeded US$10.7 billion in 2001 (1) and was wait fored to surpass US$12 billion in 2002 on the contrary the Russian government wavered above the oil-pipeline project linking Siberia with Daqing in China's Northeast; the present from Japan to absorb the construction require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone ...