Why the West is pushing Russia toward China

For ten years, the West has multiplied sanctions, exclusions, symbolic breaks. The intention was to limit Russian influence. The result was the opposite: Russia has accelerated its rapprochement with China.

Trade, infrastructure, technology — the two countries have never been so connected.

The West, by putting Russia in a corner, pushed it into the arms of a partner playing the long game.

It's a geopolitical boomerang effect: by wanting to isolate Moscow, Beijing was strengthened. And this changes the world balance in a way that no one really anticipated.