| Summary/Abstract |
This article analyzes the advisability of transforming the partnership relations between Russia and China into an alliance with an emphasis on the military aspect of their cooperation. The author considers points testifying to the inadvisability and irrationality of concluding such an alliance in the context of today's global situation, where a new world order has yet to form conclusively. With regard to the alliance between the Soviet Union and China of the 1950s and '60s, the author concludes that one of the factors leading to its breakup at that time was the Soviet leadership failing to understand items associated with the history of Chinese civilization that would allow the creation of a specific Chinese "psychotype." This eventually became the main reason for the incompatibility of the national mentalities in the Soviet Union and China, affecting the durability of the two countries' alliance in the middle of the 20th century. The author uses data from Chinese experts to emphasize the predominance in Chinese academic circles of the opinion that it is better to maintain a strategic partnership between the two countries, and there is no need to transform it into an alliance.
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