The alliance between Russia and China, according to the chairman of the international affairs committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Alexei Pushkov, is built in response to the expansion of the US and NATO."The US and NATO lined up the world for themselves for 20 years. In response to the expansion of the western alliance, an alternative alliance is being built by Russia and China," RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
This week, during the visit of Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Russia, a number of documents were signed on deepening cooperation in trade and the economy, including gas, however the landmark became an agreement to join the Eurasian Economic Union with the trans-Eurasian project "Economic line of the Silk Road."
