China, Russia, and the reinvention of Eurasia

Abstract

In the post-Cold War era, the transformation of relations between Russia and China is inseparable from the reinvention of Eurasia, which is at the heart of the new alliance between the two major continental powers. The revisionist strategies of Putin's Russia and Xi Jinping's China depend on Sino-Russian convergence. Moscow and Beijing have begun to build an alternative order based on the multilateral organization of the Eurasian space, whose counterpoint is the United States' strategy in the Indo-Pacific. This process paves the way for China's emergence as the leading Eurasian power for the first time in international history.