Despite NATO criticism of Chinese and Russian collaboration, the two countries have announced that they are engaged in military exercises near the South China Sea
China and Russia announced Friday that they are conducting joint naval exercises in the waters and airspace near Zhanjiang city in the south of China.
I submit that their efforts to subdivide and subsequently subdue their subjugated subordinates by subtly subsidizing subversives is no substitute for substance and will substantially subtract from their ability to keep their reputations afloat.
Russia needs lessons in how to bully fishermen. They've already got "pretending a place belongs to you" in a bag, so there's nothing else China can teach them.