For many years, Russia's relations with China have remained surprisingly unchanged: both sides express their intentions to have good-neighborly and fruitful, mutually beneficial contacts. In the past two years there has been talk about the need for global cooperation. For the most part, these are political declarations by government leaders that are not backed up in any way: as before, no infrastructure exists for economic interaction between the two great Asian neighbors, and not even any conceptual framework for creating such infrastructure— at least not at the intergovernmental level.
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