Article: Russia-China warming may leave U.S. in cold.(A)

Chinese-Russian relations are better than at any time in a generation, U.S. analysts say, and they are only expected to get better after the appointment of Yevgeny Primakov as Moscow's new foreign minister.

"There is a triangular relationship between the United States, Russia and China," said James Lilley of the American Enterprise Institute, who served as U.S. ambassador to China under President Bush.

"The Russian-Chinese side of the triangle is improving. The U.S.-China side is fairly flat. And the Russian-U.S. side is going down. . . . The Russians are going up in their relations with the Chinese and down with us."

Dimitri Simes, ...

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