Understanding Russia-China relations in 3 key trends.

China-Russia Dashboard: a special relationship in facts and figures ⤵️ 🌐 https://www.osw.waw.pl/chinarussia/ 🌐 https://merics.org/en/china-russia-da... 🌐 https://sceeus.se/en/china-russia-das... China and Russia are closer today than in decades. To help understand this relationship at a time of historic geopolitical tension, this dashboard tracks and analyzes the economic, political, security, and social dimensions of their interaction and how it changes over time. It is a collaborative research effort of the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), and the Swedish National China Centre (NKK) and Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Russia-China relations have always been strong, but the war in Ukraine has supercharged this relationship. Economic, political and military relations are now greater than ever. In some cases however, we could ask if indeed Russia and China are still allies or are they in fact competing for resources and power. Looking at this cooperation and data, clear trends emerge. China arctic involvement is growing and Russia is facilitating this relationship through numerous joint projects. Russian oil is primarily being bought by China, keeping Russian finances afloat in light of the growing costs of the full scale invasion on Ukraine, while the Russian automobile market has been overtaken by Chinese manufactured cars, leaving the local producers at a loss. We explore what these indicators mean in understanding the greater picture of this relationship and what it means for their future. 🔵 Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos:    / @centreforeasternstudies   🔵 Follow us on Twitter:   / osw_eng   ➡️ More OSW long-form reports and analysis in English here: https://www.osw.waw.pl/en