RUSSIAN AND CHINESE INCENTIVES TO COOPERATE – LESS THAN THE REST Russia and its

RUSSIAN AND CHINESE INCENTIVES TO COOPERATE – LESS THAN THE REST

Russia and its satellites, backward, landlocked, without rivers, could not compete internationally. China, backward, insular, an enormous island, surrounded by sea, desert and mountains, with economically different regions, can be torn apart by international competition.

Isolated from the rest of the world, China and Russia and its satellites can internally cooperate, if they cannot externally compete.

The rest of the world has greater incentive to cooperate.