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Article: Can a bear love a dragon? (Russia-China relations)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1997
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"GOOD fences make good neighbours," said the poet, Robert Frost. China and Russia agree. The vast neighbours are busy marking out their 4,300-kilometre (2,700-mile) border. Though a few slivers of land remain controversial (a pugnacious regional governor in Russia's far east, Yevgeny Nazdratenko, is fiercely disputing a decision to give China a patch of 15 square kilometres), the job should be more or less finished this year, allowing both sides to reduce the crushing weight of troops and armaments they deploy along the frontier.
A troop-reduction agreement was one of two main documents awaiting signature during this week's visit to Russia by China's president, Jiang ...
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