Reflections on Sino-Russian Strategic Partnership

China and Russia announced“their resolve to develope a strategic partnership ofequality.mutual confidence and mutual coordination toward the 21stcentury" during President Yeltsin's China visit in April 1996。 The partnership represents a new type of slate-to-state relations based on e-quality and mutual confidence.It aims at safeguarding each other’s national inter-ests and building a fair,just international political and economic order.It is charac-