🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Can Russia and China trust each other? | Inside Story

With a firm handshake, the president’s of China and Russia have announced stronger ties.

Vladimir Putin’s hosting Xi Jinping in Vladivostok - as well as the Japanese and South Korean leaders - at the three 3 day Eastern Economic Forum. It aims to boost investment in the Far East region of Asia.

But Putin’s warning trade barriers are a threat to Asian economies – as the world’s top two economies, the US and China impose trade tarrifs on each other.

As the talks began - so did the largest war games by Chinese and Russian troops since the Soviet Union.

Three hundred thousand troops, thirty six thousand tanks and armoured vehicles and a thousand warplanes and ships are all on parade in Siberia.

Are they building an alliance?

And what does the US and its allies think?

Presenter: Hoda Abdel-Hamid

Guests:
Pavel Felgenhauer - Russian military analyst
Michael Kovrig - International Crisis Group
Michael Purcell - Center for Global Interests

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