How have China and Russia beefed up their relationship after Ukraine war wobble? Expert Q&A

By Natasha Kuhrt, Senior Lecturer in International Peace & Security, King's College London

China has agreed to strengthen its relationship with Russia, after a meeting between Russia foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and China’s foreign minister Wang Yi. They both used the occasion to criticise the west’s “cold war thinking” and accuse it of bullying. International affairs editor Rachael Jolley asked Natasha Kuhrt, an expert on the Russia-China relationship from King’s College London, to explain why the conversation was important.

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