Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Rand Corporation. He formerly served as an adviser at the Pentagon.
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China's friends are few and unreliable
Beijing maintains zero alliances, and its partnerships are mostly with pariah states
Xi attempts to shake hands with Putin during a meeting in Moscow in June 2019: they remain deeply suspicious of each other. © Reuters
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