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The USSR and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations for the first time on October 2, 1949. The Soviet Union became the first foreign state to declare recognition of the PRC. On February 14, 1950, the Soviet-Chinese Treaty of friendship, alliance and mutual assistance was signed in Moscow. In the following decade, bilateral cooperation was formalized by a number of important agreements, including assistance in the construction and reconstruction of 156 large industrial enterprises...

Since the beginning of the 21st century and significant personnel changes in the Russian government, Russian foreign policy had finally lost all signs of servility which positively influenced the development of international relations with other countries. At the same time, relations between Russia and the United States patently deteriorated. Despite the fact that every Russian foreign policy concept, including the most recent Foreign Policy Concept of 2023, presupposed wide cooperation with the...

In order to overcome the crise which had emersed due to high levels of social tension, economic stagnation, corrupt practices and a sharp change in the leadership of the Communist Party caused, in particular, by the death of Yuriy Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, and ensure the viability of the country, Mikhail Gorbachev, developed a new political direction, which would later get the name Perestroika. The group of the mentioned politicians, also known as architects of perestroika, developed a strategy to ease tensions with the United States of America, the main rival of the Soviet Union within the bipolar system...