China-Russia ties too strong to be destabilized by US designs

There have been murmurs that the relationships among the United States, Russia and China are undergoing changes. Even commercial projects initiated by some Chinese enterprises have been politicized and used as examples by the Western media to claim China-Russia relations are no longer that strong.

For example, the demand of protestors in Russia's Irkutsk region that a Chinese company stop building a water bottling plant because it could drain and pollute Lake Baikal, the deepest and largest reservoir of freshwater in the world, is being cited as signs of weakening Sino-Russian ties. To confound public opinions further, the US has indicated that it wants to improve relations with Russia, and the recent conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone was part of that endeavor.

Such claims have left many guessing whether Moscow would really cooperate with Washington to "contain" Beijing.