Nothing is permanent on the earth, but the trends for now show that China and Russia will gang up more against the US. Reasons for this are as follows:

Firstly, the US and the West as a whole have lost much of their economic charm after the global financial crisis. The Chinese do not recognize that their economic growth is highly dependent on the American market. They only see the pressure, which the US government exert in many aspects of their policy. In the first half of this year I conducted a small opinion poll in this blog for the Chinese. 36% of all respondents answered that "The US is trying to destroy our society. China from now on will realize its economic growth by collaborating with Russia", and only 17% said that the Chinese economy depends upon the trade with the outside world, and that it is necessary to help each other.

And when I teach at a business school in Moscow and when I tell the students to make a business plan for a starting-up venture business, many of them only think of importing goods with advanced technology from China and sell them in Russia. The Russian elite explicitly tell me that technologies developed in China would be sufficient for reforming the Russian economy. They do not want to bow to the West for technology, and they do not know yet that the Chinese advanced technology needs mother machines from Germany, Japan and other Western countries.

Secondly, elections are approaching in Russia, where a pro-Western posture does not pay off. China, too, is bracing for a change of the leader, the Communist Party's General Secretary. Any candidate with conciliatory line toward the US will lose the support of the People's Liberation Army.

Moreover, the specter of the "spring in the Arab" hovers above their heads