{"id":85026,"date":"2022-11-08T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/11\/08\/pentagon-xi-and-putin-edging-toward-an-alliance\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:45:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:45:55","slug":"pentagon-xi-and-putin-edging-toward-an-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/11\/08\/pentagon-xi-and-putin-edging-toward-an-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: Xi and Putin \u2018edging toward an alliance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 The Pentagon says Russia and China appear to be \u201cedging toward an alliance\u201d at a time when Western nations are seeking to isolate Moscow over its war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told reporters on Tuesday that \u201cwe should expect the Russia-China relationship to deepen.\u201d Nine months ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2022\/10\/18\/as-xi-calls-for-reunification-pentagon-says-china-policy-is-unchanged\/\">China\u2019s Xi Jinping<\/a> and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin signed off on their so-called \u201cno limits\u201d strategic partnership just days before Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019ve really been much more willing to signal this thing is edging towards an alliance as opposed to a superficial partnership,\u201d Kahl said, pointing to their joint military exercises \u2015 which involved more than 50,000 troops for a week in early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China appears to view Russia as a counterweight to the U.S., while Russia, hemmed in by Western sanctions and export controls, \u201cincreasingly has nowhere else to go\u201d and could depend more and more on China \u201ceconomically, technologically and potentially militarily,\u201d Kahl said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what\u2019s been seen as Xi\u2019s most direct criticism yet of the Kremlin and the war, the Chinese leader warned against using nuclear weapons over Ukraine during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Beijing last week. Xi didn\u2019t call out Russia by name, but a month earlier Putin threatened Ukraine with a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, Kahl didn\u2019t bring up that meeting but said he believes the partnership does have some limits. China is wary of baiting U.S. sanctions itself and, for now, \u201cdoing too much too openly in terms of openly supporting Russia militarily,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDespite it being a relationship without limits, I think China is nervous about that relationship, at least about that too many aspects of that relationship being public,\u201d Kahl said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kahl said the National Defense Strategy and National Security Strategy, which view China as near-peer competitor and Russia as as an acute challenge, recognize the growing relationship as a new feature of the geopolitical landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, the potential for a three-player contest between nuclear powers presents a strategic problem for the United States, but China\u2019s limited arsenal prevents it from being a true peer. Kahl said the U.S. should for now continue to deter a nuclear attack by maintaining the ability to retaliate with its own nuclear attack \u2015 and not entering into an \u201cendless arms race\u201d based on quantity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t contest where the kid who dies with the most toys wins,\u201d he said. \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t think about it that if Russia has 2,000 nuclear weapons and China as 1,000 nuclear weapons, the United States needs 3,001.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relationship is not a &#8216;superficial partnership,&#8217; says DoD policy 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