Again, none of us are Russia experts, but I can certainly highlight the fact that Russia and China are increasingly working together in the international system. They are working in the UN to develop their own methods of cyber-governance that prioritize sovereignty and oppose individual freedom. They are working together militarily. They are developing, now, early warning systems together. They have worked together on missile defence. We saw, only a few months ago, the first-ever joint patrol between Russian and Chinese air forces fly over territory disputed between South Korea and Japan, aimed at dividing the United States' two allies in Northeast Asia: Japan and South Korea.
I think this is because those two countries share an interest in opposing what they see as American hegemony. They want to change the rules, the norms, in the international system. I think the more the United States highlights that both of these countries are revisionist powers, the more this has given them an even greater incentive to work together.