Henrietta Levin
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first heard May 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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And so right now, what do you see Russia
Russia needing or prioritizing most from China to sustain the war effort in Ukraine.
And do you think Russia's happy with what it's getting or is it looking for more?
More broadly, in this relationship as Russia grows increasingly dependent on Beijing, what is China getting out of its very controversial support for Russia aside from an ideologically like-minded neighbor?
And it seems like
Even as relations grew warmer, at least up until the beginning of the full scale invasion of Ukraine, there were certain areas that Russia still wanted relatively to be off limits or to preserve predominant influence for itself, like thinking about
Russia's ties and influence in Central Asia or presence in the Arctic or certain forms of more advanced military technology.
And it seemed like traditionally the Russians wanted to preserve their own predominance in those areas.
And increasingly, whether this is a result of explicit agreements or just because of the changing nature of dependence in the relationship.
China seems to be faring much better in getting a more welcoming reaction from the Russians across those areas.
Would you agree with that assessment?
Like where do you see the trends in those more traditionally sensitive areas of the relationship?
We're almost out of time, but I wanna stop where we started, which is kind of diving back into history or at least China's and Russia's interpretation of it, because we've seen China really double down over somewhat a historical narrative of its World War Two victory.
To legitimize its claims to international leadership, to legitimize its parochial goals in Asia, like establishing control over Taiwan, marginalizing Japan, et cetera, in a way that feels to be almost kind of Russian inflected.
And we've heard Russia's prioritization of its own narrative of war legacy.
for a a longer time.
And so wondering how do Sino-Russian relations fit into both sides' understanding of what the post-World War II order is supposed to be and what their position is within it.
It's fascinating how as China tries to forge ahead into a future that it increasingly shapes and controls and Russia tries to reach back into the past to recreate a a prior kind of greatness, you see, even though they're going temporally in different directions, like a profound complementarity to those two projects.
Well, we'll have to wrap there.
Sasha, thank you so much for coming on the show.
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