Following the crisis in Ukraine last year and subsequent Western sanctions against Moscow, China and Russia have become more politically aligned. In this podcast with Paul Haenle, Carnegie Moscow director Dmitri Trenin explained how Chinese and Russian leaders hold a similar vision of the world and how closer China-Russia relations will affect the international system.

Trenin argued that Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are united largely by a shared desire for a more multipolar world in which non-Western countries hold more sway. He also asserted that China and Russia can identify many new areas of common interest to enhance cooperation, such as expanding infrastructure in Central Asia, fostering mutual economic development, and cultivating a community of like-minded, non-Western countries to shape the future of the international order.

Dmitri Trenin

Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

Paul Haenle

Paul Haenle is the director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. Prior to joining Carnegie, he served from June 2007 to June 2009 as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama.