Article: Chinese Officials Announce a Proposed Friendship Treaty with Russia.

By Colin McMahon, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 8--KHABAROVSK, Russia--The growing friendship between Russia and China makes some people nervous, and not just in the West.

Moscow's high-tech weapon sales to China have increased. So have high-level diplomatic meetings. Both nations dish out high-pitched criticism of the West, standing together against what they deem imperialism or unfair meddling and complicating international diplomacy. Resentment of the U.S. is a tie that binds.

Now the comradeship is to be codified. Chinese officials announced in Beijing Tuesday that President Jiang Zemin will sign a friendship ...

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