Are China and Russia Allies? 

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

Mongolia: they used to fear me

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

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

There relationship is like an enemy of enemy is my friend

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I love Eastern Dragon!

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.

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

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

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

Keep your friends close and potential enemy even closer..

This channel is CRIMINALLY underrated. There's lots of other demand for channels like this around, e.g. Kraut, Countryballs Explained many many more. This channel is gonna skyrocket in the near future.

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

5:42 "STUFF" in Cyrillic - excellent xD

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

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

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.

This channel deserve so many likes very well researched.

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.

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

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

Ty for information

Please continue making videos!!!

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

that was a cute presentation. Thanks! :D

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!

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

I like this it's so cute!

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

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

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

The greatest of friends and the fiercest of rivals

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

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

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

This channel is so underrated

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

Great video

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!

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

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

细致而通俗，支持👍

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

Amazing video. Hopefully this channel will grow

great video

You deserve much more subs

Love your countries animations

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

Great video subbed and liked

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

Nice video! Well done!

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

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

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.

Great content and underrated

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

Nice video.

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

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!

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.

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.

very unbiased, nice video

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

Mongolia: I used to rule the world

7:21 Oops!

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

Found you from a Kraft video your pretty good 👍🏻

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

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Very nice

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

Keep up the great work. Just found your channel

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

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

Awesome video 👍

This channels deserves more subscribers!

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

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

this needs more views

your animations are good to see

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

Your presentation is informative and funny also .. well done!

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

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

very relevant today

Thanks. I wanted to know more from where I come from.

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

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

great video!!best of wishes for this channel ❤❤

As a Chinese, I would say the part about China is basically unbiased, which is RARE in RU-vid. 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.