‘Best Friends?’ China-Russia Relations under Xi and Putin

Assistant Professor Chris Miller (The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)

Topic

What drives the improvement in bilateral relations under Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin? How sustainable is it? Today the two countries' relationship involves trade, energy, finance, and foreign policy. They exchange advanced technologies,including in the military sphere. How deep and durable is the two countries' strategic partnership? Will their shared foreign policy interests catalyze continued cooperation, or is there a risk that historic mistrust undermines the relationship?

Biography

Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and co-director of the school's Russia and Eurasia Program. He is author of Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018) and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy (2016). His next book We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin will be published by Harvard University Press in 2021. He is currently writing a history of the computer
chip.

He has previously served as the associate director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. in History from Harvard University.

Organiser: SOAS China Institute

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