While China-Russia partnership offers China political opportunity to play a larger role on the world stage, there is significant rhetoric in these games that is 'little more than rhetoric'—the durability of the China-Russia alliance is uncertain.
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“but politically China has a very clear opportunity to become a world play a much more important role player than it already is and we'll have to see how it goes between she and Putin because there's a lot of rhetoric in these games which is um you know is little more than rhetoric”
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How The West Can Stop Putin, with Exiled Critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Intelligence Squared— Intelligence SquaredCreated: 8/10/2026, 10:56:34 PM
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