Are China and Russia Allies?

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the United States have stood unopposed at the top of the geopolitical food-chain. However, in recent times some have suggested that a new alliance is threatening the United State’s position, namely the one between China and Russia. In this video we’ll take a closer look at the Sino-Russian relationship. Are these two nations really building a strong alliance or are there problems which tend to be overlooked?
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Music: Kevin MacLeod
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Historic relationship
3:19 Trade cooperation
4:04 Political cooperation
5:00 Strategic cooperation
5:25 Russia's problems with China
7:07 China's problems with Russia
9:43 Conclusion & Outro
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Sources:
Kaczmarski, Marcin (2015) Russia-China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order. New York: Routledge.
Lo, Bobo (2008) Moscow, Beijing, and the new Geopolitics. Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Levin, L. Michael (2008) The Next Great Clash: China and Russia vs. The United States. Westport: Praeger Security International.
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#china #russia #alliance

[@gamzillio]

It's not a friendship, it's a strategic partnership.

[@singh1261]

China is nothing before 1959...even has a food shortages..Russia is 2 world power then and struggle for becoming no 1 world power...slowly slowly by occupying their neighbors territory China make its size bigger...and never want to solve it....and slowly slowly he show his small red eyes to USA...now world count ....China no 2 power.....

[@citizenx7585]

@@singh1261 Why I am reading your comment in my mind as Indian Accent lol.

[@hopelfreyamikaelson9348]

@@singh1261 mate read the history and talk China was great from before Romans existed China emperors are one of powerful and greatest and great on technology in their times

[@hopelfreyamikaelson9348]

@@singh1261 u can just say India is nothing without British British developed Indian

[@byron-ih2ge]

@@hopelfreyamikaelson9348 untill the 1100s india was no 1 economically. In these thousands of yrs india has influenced china in so many ways but china had almost negligible influence on india .

[@mrhawk2051]

Mongolia: they used to fear me

[@jonsong4592]

steppe nomads have really lost their fear factor after guns became mainstream....

[@josephlitjc6430]

@@jonsong4592 To think at one point these nomads were nigh unstoppable

[@jonsong4592]

@@josephlitjc6430 don't you mean "neigh" unstoppable? I'll show myself out

[@crkcrk702]

Plot twist : Mongolia finds incredible ressource on its territory and creates horse tanks with the money.

[@jonsong4592]

@@crkcrk702 tanks shaped like horses or tanks made out of horses? I don't need sleep i need answers.

[@user-pm6cb1wo9s]

" It's not personal , it is strictly business." “Nations have no permanent friends or allies , they only have permanent interests.”

[@Groza_Sadika]

yep, political realism at its' finest

[@kalimacho1]

Even interest is not permanent.. everything is temporary

[@jetmon5606]

@@kalimacho1 true

[@mrrobot6926]

its like China is on Russia (Doggy style) while Russia is fighting USA>

[@user-pm6cb1wo9s]

@@mrrobot6926 it is like US on Ukraine when Ukraine fight with Russia much

[@dr0skaboney]

That chocolate border analogy was the funniest thing I have watched this whole year. I love this channel!

[@President_Mike]

WE LOVE THIS CHANNEL

[@tranthiminhchauam5538]

"Private, a friend is just an enemy that hasn't attacked you yet"

[@tranthiminhchauam5538]

KOWALSKY, ANALYSIS!

[@cerridianempire1653]

"noted"

[@mzrohan3226]

Me looking at my friend suspiciously while his obliviously eating the last slice of pizza.....this means war

[@tranthiminhchauam5538]

Comrade you are to execute plan Odessa, take out the AA station near your position. Weapons are free and we're now at war.

[@KatePCraig]

Joseph Stalin’s mindset in a nutshell

[@shadowbearandignididtnt3299]

There relationship is like an enemy of enemy is my friend

[@SFFRN19]

I wonder how this phrase will hold true in between them regarding India.

[@anniketmishra2621]

@@SFFRN19 Russia will have to choose sides between India and China. Most probably it will go with China because India is starting to build strong relations with the US.

[@electro6202]

@@anniketmishra2621 russia also has to be careful themselves since china plans on annexing the russian far east but china cant go against russia and the us so all china really needs to do is weaken the us and then backstab an already weakened russia i dont know. Having the us an an ally is more beneficial than having china as an ally. We all know best time to attack a country is when its at its weakest once the us is down china will become the strongest country in the world. Russia need to realize this before its too late

[@wonderworld7721]

@罗茂群 : lol... "believe" ?? i don't know about "Japanese", but China ?? certainly noo !!...

[@CDang-ms6dc]

It's pretty much similar to Japan allying with Germany during WWII. They can never build a bond as strong as those between Western countries.

[@Utars]

"У России есть только 2 союзника - её армия и флот" - Александр III "Russia has only 2 allies - its army and fleet" - Alexander III

[@kk-kh2bw]

我们也是这么想的。嘿嘿嘿

[@Adil_Turysbek]

And airforce. ВВС бы добавить.

[@potatonoodlebear8035]

@@kk-kh2bw 老毛子，当年也是非常吓人的，难搞。

[@alanchen8272]

@@potatonoodlebear8035 当年抢了这么多土地，还在东北制造了大屠杀，俄罗斯野心极大，千万小心

[@potatonoodlebear8035]

@@alanchen8272 是啊，清朝时，贝加尔湖和库页岛还是我国领土。不过也没啥办法了，毕竟签了条约而且当时哪个国家没欺负中国T_T，现在还是少数的几个准盟国之一.

[@handsomejack4590]

Chinese admire Russian's achievement in art and their character of fearlessness. Chinese miss the USSR very much because that was once their spiritual guidance. Chinese also hate them for having bullied China over the many centuries past.

[@surerwu4629]

你说的没错，不过很多事情我们都是分开算的，就事论事。

[@lachlanseiffert6186]

And they enjoy copy and pasting all of their tech

[@handsomejack4590]

@@lachlanseiffert6186 until surpass them

[@user-li1yg5te8d]

去你妈想念苏联！黄俄杂种不要代表中国人说话

[@ruiwang8024]

@@surerwu4629 没错锤子。中俄矛盾是康熙年间才正式开始的，我人傻了。

[@troyw8016]

“We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests”. - Winston Churchill

[@CloudC-kj6kt]

that makes britain a joke now, with no friends only a dog of U.S. even Europe abandon it hah

[@andrewflow7033]

@@CloudC-kj6kt meh last time u said before "green local pirates" took spain gold xD

[@xilunjiang2558]

Churchill is such a meme at this point

[@eroktartonga4032]

...was racist and imperialist.

[@andrewgammon5033]

@@eroktartonga4032 maybe the case but compare him to Hitler. One took racism to the extreme

[@sammy7408]

USA: So, both of you are friends to each other? Russia: Yesn't China: Non't

[@novamystique7958]

Lmfao

[@Minecraft-dr5io]

Uhh it is Not a English word

[@sammy7408]

@@Minecraft-dr5io you're right!

[@taneyadasmandal1901]

@@Minecraft-dr5io r/woosh Indians really dont understand jokes

[@Quetzalcoatl_Feathered_Serpent]

Russia: Yesn't China: Non't........ It's complicated.....

[@mollye]

Ngl it's refreshing to see actually well put together and informative videos in this format as I find most of these semi-humorous channels about politics or history or whatever either ignorant or too simplistic, but this was actually very good. For example, China's paranoia about territorial integrity and the particularly Russian expansionist geopolitical strategy (in the west) is not something I had thought of as affecting relations between them, even though it seems so obvious now that you have pointed it out! I would not be surprised if this video ended up picked up by some lecturer for an intro to international politics class or something.

[@TheRezro]

China has a claim to part of Russian territory known as Outer Manchuria. Though weakening the US us shared interest of both. They clearly have different vision how achieve that goal.

[@order-mj8ns]

@@TheRezrowell,but that narrative is far from mainstream in china,you know is not easy for a contary who have 1.4 billion people

[@changshi922]

Chinese Qing dynasty has 12.8 million km^2 territory, but now it had only around 9.6 million km^2 territory. There is a period called hundred year shame in China which Chinese Qing dynasty signed a lot of unequal treaties, and massive territory. During that time, Chinese people live like pigs. Thus, Chinese people hate any territory robbers even that country is their allies. And Chinese people also desired to get back all those lost territory which hurt the relationship with surrounding countries.

[@GyLala]

I love Eastern Dragon!

[@user-pt8og3ls5x]

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[@Fruitsmymainispomgranates]

Hello

[@kaiyst7555]

@@user-pt8og3ls5x Good, I love Scotland

[@williamtours3749]

@@user-pt8og3ls5x I love Islamic Republic of Uyghuristan. I love Hong Kong. I love Kingdom of Tibet. I love Empire of Manchukuo. I love Republic of Korea. I love Republic of Karelia. I Love Republic of Formosa.

[@-Nastika]

@@williamtours3749 ？Tibet will not be a kindom once independent. Please pay attention.

[@futureshock382]

China and Russia relationship against the USA can be compared to USA and USSR relationship against the Germans during WW2. When the enemy is gone, they will turn on each other.

[@xkjg4808]

yeah, but usa has to collapse and die

[@pogmonke5217]

@@xkjg4808 usa wouldn’t stand a chance against china and russia combined.

[@BenjaminBBall]

@@pogmonke5217 I think It would be a tie honestly, Russia and China’s military Is more “defend” than “attack” while USA’s military Is both defend and attack

[@darkch1p]

@@BenjaminBBall probably also have to take in account allies as well

[@pogmonke5217]

@@BenjaminBBall usa couldn’t even defeat þe taliban, I don’t þink þere is any way þey could not lose wiþout help from nato.

[@1Invinc]

I disagree with your last word. There are some issues that two parties fundamentally cannot resolve. But there is no real need to resolve them. China doesn't comment on Russian border chomping, Russia doesn't comment on Chinese separatists. Neither side forces the issue. Neither wants to have a confrontation on the issue and neither needs to have a resolution on the issue. It is a fairly "Western minded" idea that issues must be resolved, and kinks in value differences must be called out and ironed out... even if it is in neither party's interest to do so.

[@1Invinc]

One issue with this method of Western analysis is that the west views power dynamics in terms of winners and losers. It is a short sighted method of viewing power dynamics that benefits administrations with limited terms rather than the continuing state of their nations. China and Russia view power dynamics for what it is, and focuses on just staying in the game. The status quo between the two is palatable to both, so there is no reason to engage each other in No-Win scenarios.

[@sillyboy7717]

@@1Invinc This is so true. Survive in the game is what China do for 5000 years.

[@marlarki5280]

Why do you write as if the west doesn’t act in the same exact way? The only reason this issue is even noticeable is because the west is looking up and down for cracks in the relationship.

[@winsonzhu4427]

As long as the state of their relationship is better than how they would have it if they were going at it against each other by far, they can leave uncomfortable issues unresolved, and they can spin certain ones into shows of "friendship"; declining to comment is a fairly common diplomatic move in these types of scenarios. Sign agreements, participate in each other's events, trade, etc., all while kicking uncomfortable issues down the road for when the relationship eventually sours and it makes sense to do something about it.

[@danshakuimo]

@@jasperbudiono295 Well Trump did want to back out of NATO right?

[@jeffvella9765]

I think that this video missed the main point. Both Russia and China make rules and they stick to them and that is why they are friends. You cannot trust counties that cannot even follow their own rules. US will always be a natural enemy because it makes rules and breaks them constantly depending on it's interest. US can never have friends because no independent country trusts the US, the Us rules through fear. Every other independent country has no choice but to either submit to the abusive husband or side with the US enemy. What is happening in geopolitics would not have happened if the US followed their own rules and did not try to kill anyone who COULD resist, not that it did try to resist. Both China and Russia did not choose to anger the US, the US tried to kill them because it feared their potential strength. The result is that the US fears are becoming a reality sooner than expected.

[@user-hx2xl2km2e]

The chocolate example was so good. That made my day.

[@lexcortez5812]

🇨🇳 & 🇷🇺 : forms alliance 🇺🇸 : looking for an ally *"🇮🇳 : has joined the chat"*

[@tejaswarpjt356]

But India is always a true friend of Russia 🇷🇺, it cant let USA for RUSSIA (or) RUSSIA for USA.

[@buddhashaqtea2577]

@@VaikunthaDwar China is going to crumble internally due to corruption and internal instability anyways. It’s the other way around

[@siddharthdoshi4858]

@@VaikunthaDwar dumbass don’t go on the size on countries and yes if a war breaks out it’s going to be in cold conditions on a great height with many weapons that can not be used like tanks we fked more soldiers in recent combat. Those short morons don’t stand a chance against the Indian army and that too now with Rafel. Mfs didn’t even tell how many Chinese were killed but it’s 34 according to us intelligence. Indian soldiers are willing to die for their nation more than anyone whereas those poor Chinese soldiers are working under fear of ccp. Think before you speak we made 93000 soldiers surrender in 1971 and we are even stronger now.

[@vlad_47]

China breaking up and collapsing would be scary and highly dangerous for the world.

[@kraigisboss]

@@vlad_47 Oh definitely. If we have learned anything from the history of china breaking up is that a lot of people end up dead and here we have now modern-day weapons along with China's nuke stockpile. If china falls to warlords again it going to get messy mainly because of the nuke's just being there.

[@Toe_Merchant]

It's insane how little views this has! I know for sure there's a huge interest on KZbin for stuff like this

[@soharshadhikari682]

Yes.

[@unkown_ad7614]

Yeah

[@nera_kit4566]

lol other viewer don't understand it because 75% kids

[@sunnyjim1355]

Nah. KZbin is still fundamentally about watching videos of people's cats playing. Always has been, always will be.

[@ZeDe-lo7lf]

How wrong is this...

[@justapplepi3]

I am glad that youtube recommended this channel to me, love your videos❤❤❤❤

[@edwinpatricsson3303]

Your videos are underrated and realy helpfull in understanding the geopolitics of the world. However your description of hard and soft power is only partly right. There are three ways to make person A make something for person B. 1. You can force person A (military force, sanctions, interventions) 2. You can pay person A (bribes, loans, embargos. China is currently doing this with the belt and road project. For example taking control over sri lanka's largest port) Or 3. You can influence person A through persuation/attraction (in terms of nations this could be music, colture, movies, food, litterature, etc). The two first point are what we call hard power, and the third point is what we call soft power. The difference between hard and soft power can be summarised quite well in this sentence, "There is more power in jeans and rock n' roll than there is in the entire red army" - Régis Debray

[@majok4898]

Keep your friends close and potential enemy even closer..

[@tritium1998]

So all your "friends" you brag about are potential enemies.

[@siddharthmishra48]

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Kraut is so bad how can you stomach that drivel

[@markdin2988]

@@robertzhang5958 kraut sucks ass

[@simonesurana]

agreed, mans deserves more than 50k subs

[@mrrobot6926]

its like China is on Russia (Doggy style) while Russia is fighting USA>

[@julianherranz1030]

This video shows a really deep lack of understanding of Russia, of China and of the relations between them. First you look at both from a Western point of view and see what you want to see. When you see China challenging Russia in Central Asia you see what a westerner wants to see. What Russia see is that the influence of China helps to keep away US, UK and western powers. Do you see the difference? When you see that China gets raw materials from Russia and benefits from them, do you want to know what Russia see? That their raw materials are benefiting a nation that respect them, that does not interfere in their internal affairs and that it shares its enemies. So Russia is really happy to sell their raw materials to China. And it’s also happy to buy consumer stuff from China, since the Russian industry has been always focused in military and hard industry stuff they lack production of stuff like coffe machines and so on. They are totally happy to be able to buy a coffee machine from China and not from the West. From the Chinese perspective, also is great to receive petrol, gas and raw materials from Russia, avoiding a possible blockade in the Malacca straits. As well as a possible future usage of a Russian dominate North route using the Russian ice breakers in the artic. You can lie to yourself as much as you want, but Russia and China are closed friends and allies than any western alliance apart of the Anglosaxon five eyes. They are indeed, allies, not vassals. As the European states are of the US. And they totally share enemies and common interest, something that is not true even within the European Union. Where the interest totally change from east to west and north to south

[@user-hw6bn2sb4w]

There are indeed many disputes between China and Russia in history, but the Chinese people can distinguish between the ancient hatred and the immediate threat which is more important. The Chinese know very well who will benefit from the provocation of China Russia relations. I quite agree with you on the industrial complementarity between China and Russia. In fact, Germany and Russia are also so complementary in industry, which has made Germany's brilliant economic achievements today. If the Germans do not cherish the economic benefits brought by Russia, the Chinese are willing to replace Germany To tell the truth, isn't it the Americans who forced China and Russia into the same trench?

[@julianherranz1030]

@@user-hw6bn2sb4w I agree with you that Russia and China had some issues in the past. But those issues are not trascendental. France and Germany or France and England were enemies all their existence as nations, but today they are kind of allies. Russia and China are allies and friends now. They share enemies, view of the world, some goals… And even more important, they don’t have points of combats. The only possible conflict would be Manchuria, that is far less important for China than the South, Taiwan and so on China need Russia and Russia needs China. Together you can do great things and liberate the world from the Anglosaxon

[@user-hw6bn2sb4w]

@@julianherranz1030

[@RDJTS_ayu]

You are absolutely right, China and Russia help and respect each other, and not like the US and its Allies.

[@trulyharsh]

8:11 I Just Love The Fact That He Made The Part Of Russia That is Touching Crimea Look Like A *Bear*

[@siddharthdoshi4858]

In politics, are no permanent friends or enemies only permanent interests.

[@mitesh2k3]

Its "allies are temporary but interests are permanent"

[@prophetofregret8468]

Not really, friendships and grudges in nations endure a long time, that's why Southern Slavs hate each other and strongest of western and eastern Slavs - Poles and Russians hate each other, as they both claim Belarusians to be their closest brothers and Ukrainian lands being their property along with the other leader's country

[@gulfarahmakeupartist4261]

Oh do russia is not supporting india

[@darkflamemaster000]

UK and Portugal agree to disagree with you

[@Chrischi4598]

I’d say there are national friendships. Look at Germany and France, the Benelux or the Nordic states. Of cause all these states are western and democratic. In the given case of Russia and China, sure that’s temporary cooperation. But no friendship

[@coleleeson6427]

Amazing, so sad didn't find you sooner, doubt I'll be the only one thinking like this either

[@user-yi9ef2bo8u]

I'm from China and I'm very happy that youtube's algorithm brought me to this channel. I have watched many of your videos on China's international relations, including this one of course. Really, you are the analyst who can see the essence of the problem the most among all foreign media I've ever seen, and if you have a chance, I really would like to recommend you to some think tank organizations in Europe and America.

[@user-et1rj6dj1u]

China: rides Chinese dragon Russia: rides grizzly bear America: *EIGHTEEN NAKED COWBOYS IN THE SHOWERS AT RAM RANCH*

[@finlandtrip2360]

Keep up with this quality of video and you'll have thousands of subscribers soon, you don't often see channels this small making videos of this quality. Amazing work.

[@nou6150]

Please continue making videos!!!

[@PoliticswithPaint]

I'm glad you enjoy my videos! New ones are coming in April for sure!

[@bojarckhoosemanschnarf5851]

@@PoliticswithPaint you are great and criminally undersubscribed. I would rate your channel style and content a solid 8 out of 10. It would be a nine if you included some of your own opinions and a 10 if you made videos longer/more detailed. Keep working amd improving dude!

[@nera_kit4566]

@@bojarckhoosemanschnarf5851 lol who the fuck r you talking like that

[@gliang9406]

The cornerstone of Russia-China friendship: USA The cornerstone of Pakistan-China friendship: India The cornerstone of Korea-China friendship: Japan

[@user-fy7yv8qm3n]

The cornerstone of South Korea - Japan friendship: China

[@gliang9406]

@@user-fy7yv8qm3n Bro, the friendship between South Korea and Japan is non-existent. They can now sort of get along because US is their big boss.

[@Udontknowme871]

@@user-fy7yv8qm3n Both hate each other because of border dispute

[@Udontknowme871]

The cornerstone of Usa-India friendship: China And even cornerstone of Russia-India friendship: Usa 😀

[@commie5211]

@@Udontknowme871 india-us relationship, new anglo master.

[@Vasperon]

I strongly advice you to buy pop filter for the mic. The video is great btw and mostly accurate.

[@thebirdmapper357]

I just discovered this channel and you're REALLY underrated,I don't know how KZbin algorithm actually works but you really deserve more. Will be a regular watcher of you upon this point. Expecting more videos from you.

[@kentguiller]

Soviet Union: I am giving birth 2 minutes later Doctor: Congrats you died and many nations formed out of you

[@granatapacifica]

*fffffffuu-*

[@ashfudge2582]

what the fu-

[@heeheeheehaw6200]

So whos the father?

[@IamDogge]

@@heeheeheehaw6200 Germany

[@ryzhik9608]

@Yeshua Is Lord we Russians actually use both fatherland and motherland

[@imperialeagle]

1:22 I would like to add, the Rus were only formally part of The Mongol Empire. They only paid tribute to the Mongol overlords who came and went. They never intermingled with the Mongols. I don't know much about the Chinese part of this empire, though. If anyone wants to correct me, please do so!

[@HarmKaban]

Sure, except of all the russian princes who were half Mongolian, also Russia learned how to build an empire from the mongols.

[@imperialeagle]

@Andrew Popov I don't recall Russian princes being intermingled with the Mongols. As far as I recall, the Russian princes were not related to the Mongols in any other way than being puppets who paid taxes to the Mongols but were not themselves Mongols. Please correct me if I'm wrong! Thanks!

[@user-gb8yi8pz8s]

​@@imperialeagleWell, actually, for a short time the Russians were part of the Mongol Empire; we became tributaries when the Golden Horde appeared. And yet, the person above simply confused the Tatars with the Mongols

[@estoyaqui5386]

5:42 "STUFF" in Cyrillic - excellent xD

[@InFamou5Killer]

im glad the algorithm pointed me to your channel. Its so relaxing and soothing the way you talk about potential world ending events and politics

[@jeffparker2369]

The greatest of friends and the fiercest of rivals

[@user-tp2js9ej3g]

That's true and proven by my experiences. I have a friend in school and we are always rivals in academics yet, it turns out to be effective and made us what we are today

[@kilin2681]

很难不赞同

[@Meme_Deity]

I always saw them as the enemy of my enemy is my friend sort of relationship. They aren't necessarily allies but they know they need each other if they were to ever go against the west.

[@DaveGamesRoom]

This channel deserve so many likes very well researched.

[@jasonaalab]

3:50" correction, india is not in belt and road

[@dztiger6822]

@@jaywardhanraghu4822 You make me laugh. Will Indians repay their loans?

[@bomeekyaash8109]

@@dztiger6822 No, Indians will never repay any loans which India never has taken. Indians hate Chinese investments.

[@nikosgee4991]

@@bomeekyaash8109 Indians hate to be developed

[@bomeekyaash8109]

@@nikosgee4991 Nope, China is the biggest enemy of India.

[@moron2677]

@@nikosgee4991 India hates to be trapped by chinese loans

[@snoboater]

This was an excellent video, but you did forget one very big point that complicates things in their relations which is South Asia. Russia is really tight with India and Pakistan is arguably China's strongest ally period. And with India having closer and closer ties with the US and The West, that could really complicate things. Great channel tho, Kraut sent me!

[@albertchan8798]

Me too I discovered this through Kraut

[@vlad34791]

Russia actually has pretty good or at least decent relations with all East Asian countries. Most likely Russia will cooperate with China against USA, but not against other East Asian countries. Russia tends to be rather neutral in Chinese - [Asian country] conflicts and disputes unless it threatens Russian interests or security (mostly when USA gets involved).

[@pokuni7319]

India is the only country with both Russia and USA as allies, it could pull off a three way against China

[@freyawion5337]

@@pokuni7319 there's also Turkey, but it's weird with them.

[@AK-hm7ls]

@@pokuni7319 Lol Nope Not with China atleast

[@user-jw2po8eb8w]

细致而通俗，支持👍

[@holyattack]

@02:53 I laughed out loud when there is a big mustache on the Stalin Paint

[@Zbra1]

Really nice and interssting, well reaserced and done. A litte nit pick tho, some of the frames and pictures feel a litte stale so maybe some more movement in them, it doesn't lower the quality of the video just a slight interupt in the flow. I'm looking forward for more content from, I think you're on to something best of luck

[@Zbra1]

Maybe making one picture in parts, for example just after 1:50 there is a change in pictures, China gets surounded by the clolonial powers and instead of making them apear all at once maybe one at the time and china progressivly looking more paniked, making the picture more lively at just about the same amout of work

[@PoliticswithPaint]

@@Zbra1 Thank you, I'm very happy that you like it! Thats a good point, I hope to increase the overall quality of my videos over time as I get more familiar with video editing in general.

[@mainakbarman4304]

This channel is so underrated

[@user-bl2zt5qi5i]

So you think Japan and EU are the Allies of US is because of the friendship?

[@eezulatfi2841]

Ty for information

[@sakurakou2009]

china and russia relationship is enemy of my enemy is frined , here I summrized video 😂

[@enricopucci8653]

Nope Russia favours india over china which china hates

[@enricopucci8653]

That's why sino Soviet split happened

[@enricopucci8653]

@Egg T lol

[@unserkatzenland8884]

@@enricopucci8653 2:55

[@captaindak5119]

@@enricopucci8653 the Split was caused by Stalin's death. Russia's relation with India is just a symptom of that

[@4aika3]

You gotta advertise your channel man. The mood of your content is so easygoing and the presentation is quite knowledgeable

[@SionSilentBase]

-Are we enemies? -No -Are we friends? -No -Are we *gay?* -Yes

[@rebelracoon8126]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@PatrikVolkov1994]

But both Russia china hates gay

[@Udontknowme871]

Lol

[@NotReges]

amazing video, can't wait to see this channel grow. +1 subscriber for you my friend!

[@aredma2883]

I like your use of countryballs and your information is really good

[@jovenintensa]

I really like your videos and I like that you as an entity appear in the videos, but I find the stickman to be rather uncanny. Maybe you could turn yourself into a polandball to keep in line with the aesthetic. Anyways, it's just a suggestion, in any case your content is amazing and very educative. Keep up the good work!

[@fredsanford5954]

Not sure how I feel about countryballs occasionally growing arms. But keep it up with the content!

[@rickjones9247]

Your videos are absolutely fantastic! Keep up the great work!

[@arjunpandit8320]

Seriously dude you deserve more subs......

[@cowsmooo3344]

Great content and underrated

[@dr0skaboney]

You deserve much more subs

[@hectorar7890]

"The enemy of your enemy is your friend". This is basically russia and china relationship now.

[@xinyuingluo6295]

I like this it's so cute!

[@TriciaRP]

Not when they get over here...

[@wutim6472]

ni hao im chinese

[@Uran_KH-98]

Привет я русский

[@kleo5696]

@@wutim6472 ni hao

[@wutim6472]

@@kleo5696 hi

[@HistoryforThinkers]

Brilliant work man. I hope you continue making videos like this.

[@throwawayaccountm1325]

0:57 Putins look makes me think there is something going between them, that goes far beyond any politics....

[@chrisgould101]

Like they are gay?

[@user-mh4zw4ki8l]

Иди лечись

[@liamnixon4428]

7:00 A round Kazakhstan? Now I've seen everything.

[@coffeelink943]

Amazing video. Hopefully this channel will grow

[@paras2502]

Love your countries animations

[@dextercochran4916]

China: Borders are life! Russia: Hmmm... MoAr LikE *CHoColaTe bAR.*

[@michalaugustniak433]

Aww... Russian and Chinese cooperation is so cute! :3

[@danshakuimo]

Idk how well the comment will age, especially for the Americans once the Russians and Chinese stop worrying about dealing with each other.

[@glitchedout1438]

@@danshakuimonato is a thing

[@jiafeng3694]

The relationship between 2 countries cannot be simply maps to the relationship between 2 persons. China and Russia both has their own interests based on their own situation. This is a general situation for any countries. For China, it is more focusing on its own way to become a developed country in next 50 years. With a 1.4 billion population, the growth of its economy would quickly make China to be one of the superpowers in this world. However, I don't think China has more interesting other than economics in the traditional territories of Russian's area. E.g. those mid-Asian countries or Mongolia . Chinese foreign policy is clearly non-interventionism. The Belt and Road Initiative is more focused on economics rather than politics. Please be aware China solved all border issue with all the ex-cccp countries back to 1990s. For the question, are China and Russia allies? The answer is NO. But they are friends now. Even though they still have different interests like all the other countries, but there is no serious fundamental problems between these 2 countries. You would not easily expect they become enemies even if one day there is no more pressures from USA and its allies.

[@jilongxie6561]

China and Russia alliance is anti US alliance.

[@Leon-mq8on]

@@Konoha8888 Speak English.

[@tritium1998]

It's just that they don't have any treaties to drag each other into war so it gives more public flexibility. Russia's smaller neighbors and even the Anglos overseas have went to war against it in recent centuries too, or even each other before Germany and Japan surrendered in 1945.

[@nameredacted1448]

Found you from a Kraft video your pretty good 👍🏻

[@debabratasahoo6487]

The image at 7:17 pretty much sums up geopolitics.

[@dragonxu6822]

As a Chinese, I would say the part about China is basically unbiased, which is RARE in KZbin. Communism saved both China and Russia from the war. But there’s something more important than ideology, which is national interests. A little more on why China and Russia’s relationship became bad around 1950. Stalin and his predecessors betrayed the real communism, which hopes all the workers around the world to unite together, regardless of ethnicity or country. But Soviet Union treats other communist countries as colonies instead of equal partners. China won’t be a toy controlled by Russia, China wants to have an independent way to develop which Russia doesn’t allow. So when Russia threatened to pull back all the experts who are helping China build its own industry, including nuclear power industry, China still didn’t bow to Russia.

[@MjSchreiber806]

Just found your channel, great content man. You deserve way more views than you are getting and I will try and spread the word.

[@keyboardmanyoutube3189]

Nice video! Well done!

[@michaelw7311]

Russia 2015: We need to annex Crimea, because there are Russians who want to join to Motherland, Comrade. China 2035: We need to annex Siberia, because there are Chinese who want to join to China, Comrade.

[@kellyma2992]

siberian are not chinese ,they are russian , we have no connection with siberian historically , they may linked with mongol ,but not chinese .

[@nuzkie]

@@kellyma2992 yet

[@najjihnaa4324]

that is like what the soviet union and america did when they fought nazi germany, they were united because they had the same opponent the enemy of my enemy is my friend

[@James-bp7uc]

this needs more views

[@nikolapesic7986]

This vide made me smile so many times 😂 and it was very informative thanks ❤️

[@slnm1135]

We are not enemies because we face the same threat. If we are enemies in the future, it will definitely not be a confrontation between countries, but a war between civilizations.

[@golofa4935]

very unbiased, nice video

[@afanasymarinov2236]

This channels deserves more subscribers!

[@four-en-tee]

I found this channel through Kraut, really enjoying your content.

[@ianshaver8954]

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

[@kunkun9690]

7:21 Oops!

[@jonsjonsson7186]

its a nitpick, and quite a subjective one, but in the beginning of the video there is a map with the "american" bloc, and it has Sweden included in it. Sweden was officially neutral and was not part of NATO, though there was of course an understanding that if we were attacked it would be from the soviets.

[@Vict0r1984]

@@NiclasLoof Not really. Some 3rd world unaligned countries had more Soviet influence than American, and in fairness he did not include Yugoslavia in the Eastern block, so he probably shouldn't have included Sweden in the Western one either...

[@brandonbrickstudios1654]

Sweden is neutral to everything

[@saiyaninjafromvillagehidde8115]

1:07 I thought that they are doing something else until I noticed the fingers

[@Ringhai]

China and Russia have no need for an alliance at the moment, both are powerful countries. But if both are seriously facing threats from the United States, an alliance is not a bad option. Russia and China both have their own interests and unseen conflicts, but I don't think the conflict between the two countries is greater than the direct threat from the United States. China can defend itself against threats from Japan, South Korea and Australia, and Russia can defend itself against threats from the West, which allows both China and Russia to avoid the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

Yeah no it cant just look at then during ww2 they needed the help of the usa to stop the German attack on stalingrad even stalin was planning on having us and british troops deployed on the east but they all saw it wasn't possible to get the necessary man power and resources on time so that's when the Americans, British, started operation overlord to make the germans fight on two fronts so the red army had a fighting chance without the Americans getting involved the Russians wouldve called leaving the British without a strong allies why do u think the Americans focused on the European theater first

[@jiridrapal7512]

@@cristobalalvarez5491 Past is past. Both are working on past staying in past too.

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

@@jiridrapal7512 well not really Russians still are grateful for ww2 and Americans are well but since the news doesn't like showing that its getting buried behind

[@jiridrapal7512]

@@cristobalalvarez5491 when overlord happened German army on Eastern front could not hold a barn. Bagration and other operations that destroyed more men than Germans even deployed to France is telling. As for start of war in Soviet. Germany invaded with nearly 4 million men and were faced by 1 to 2 million men stretched along entire border, and most men not in units. Officers attended balls. Attack was sudden and brutal and put most units off action if only by bypassing them. Germans had success until Soviets manages to scratch up enough men to plug the front linie. Once they maneged to make a front linie germans were unable to bypass again and lost war. By the way in 2 weeks of barbarossa German tank divisions suffered combat and attrition losses to men and equipment up to 50%. Luftwaffe destroyed about 4 000 planes on grounds but didn't kill pilots. A month after start luftwaffe was capable barely make local air superiority. 7th tank division reported:"complete utter air superiority of Soviets. Being bombed 69 times a day." And by staying in past I meant unrediness of Russian army. They are only army that makes six to nine massive exercises a year involving divisions and air. Often packing up units and relocating them in a day or two on other side of Russia to conduct training operations. Nato trains on small scale and most of its experiences is against guerilla fighters. Not about conducting massive armoured warfare. Which even in days of modern weapons has its merit. Proven again and again in all local wars that occurred.

[@henryhargraves4184]

As an Australian, that country ball being economically manipulated by China hurts big time. Most of us have realised the threat posed by China’s soft power and we’ve started to diversify our economy .

[@chrisdavey3113]

Keep up the great work. Just found your channel

[@alexbumpers]

This is so great, keep up the good work. Looking forward to more videos!

[@professionalh8r367]

7:29 "That one didn't age quite so well"

[@amyli6460]

I'm Chinese and my grandma can speak Russian. (she is 80 years old now and she can still speak Russian)

[@flyingfoxes4630]

interesting... did she live under soviet rule?

[@Warriors_of_Solaria]

It must be very difficult to learn to speak Russian. Why did she learn it? Maybe she lived in Siberia/the Far East?

[@HuerniaBarbata]

@@Warriors_of_Solaria When the USSR was friends with China, many Chinese learned Russian. It's funny, now Russia has few countries of friends, but the channels of foreigners who have learned Russian more and more on KZbin. Spaniards, Germans, Dutch, Americans, British, Canadians, Koreans, Japanese, Chinese love Russia, having learned Russian. Many of the foreigners have lived in Russia for decades, have learned the language well and do not want to return home after finding something good in Russia. Do you think they all lived in Siberia? ))

[@Warriors_of_Solaria]

@@HuerniaBarbata В Европе ёмаё

[@HuerniaBarbata]

@@Warriors_of_Solaria Даже конкретнее - большинство в Москве, часть в Питере. Зачем китайцу жить в Сибири, чтобы выучить русский язык?

[@Andrey-ey7en]

Mongolia: I used to rule the world

[@user-lv9om9iq1t]

Mongolia used to be a part of China.Just check about the map of Qing dynasty

[@gdp1004]

@@user-lv9om9iq1t China was part of Mongolia. Just check about the map of Mongol empire. And Chines were the Slaves of Qing that was ruled by Manchus.

[@user-lv9om9iq1t]

@@gdp1004 Mongolia is a part of China China,just check about the map of Qing.

[@user-lv9om9iq1t]

@@gdp1004 Manchus are a ethical minority of China now.We are living in 2020,not 1820 nor 1320.China is a culture sphere rather than a specific country.And China is called by foreign people.We don’t call ourselves China or Chinese .If you don’t know Chinese,you won’t know how we recognize ourselves.我们是中华人民共和国公民，我们生活在中国，我是汉人。you need to figure out the difference between 中国公民，中国人 and 汉人. We don’t care how you think our history,because not matter how hard you try,your conclusion must be wrong .Not mention that you didn’t have even tried.

[@gdp1004]

@@user-lv9om9iq1t China was part of Mongolia. Just check about the map of Mongol empire. And Chines were the Slaves of Qing that was ruled by Manchus.

[@DerPoto]

Country balls with arms look ... cursed, to say the least

[@zakaryloreto6526]

and with fingers

[@indahf.freztiyana824]

"The enemy of my enemy is not my enemy... yet..."

[@vishalsinghthakur188]

Эй, брат Россия, ты забыл Индию. Индия - развивающаяся экономика. Независимо от того, поддержит ли вас кто-нибудь в будущем или нет, Индия всегда будет с вами. Народ Индии всегда будет с тобой 🇮🇳❤️🇷🇺

[@sevenspicy9376]

Whether the friendship between China and Russia can last long depends on how long the United States can exist

[@MikeHawksBig69]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@lachlanseiffert6186]

@//// America has its problems but its far from collapse

[@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890]

@@lachlanseiffert6186 America will never collapse, it will only become either less involved internationally because of politicians such as Trump or it will become a less powerful and influential country because of geopolitics and just pure incompetence from the top.

[@studentslav3603]

@Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, you are right about evreythink exept one think USA will collapse eventually becuse their is more differennt culcture and people And I agree with @Lachlan Seiffernt As he said america will collapse but is far from collapse ,it will collapse in 100or 200or 300 or more years . USA will evently collapse untill that , we can just sit and watch how the future is coming to as

[@arthurwellesley1stdukeofwe890]

@@studentslav3603 Americans have always have had different cultures and people, it is literally American culture and it’s what Americans identify with. It has been this way since the country truly turned into a Republic.

[@kiwikeith7633]

I think now we are nearing JULY in 2020, we need to re-write the bit about China being serious about borders.

[@Vict0r1984]

what are you referring to?

[@rensuzugamori2531]

Something similar happened after WW1. The US was a rising economic power but Great Britain was still the dominant military power. The British even made plans for a possible war with the US, but it ultimately never came to that because dealing with their common enemies was a more immediate concern. Something similar could happen to Russia, where they slowly rely more on China for military security. Remember that Canada used to be Britain’s backyard but arguably today, Canada has much closer ties with the US.

[@boomerhgt]

Great video subbed and liked