Despite a history of tumultuous relations, China and Russia remain allies, but the strategic partnership between the two world powers has shown signs of strain since the July summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Helsinki.
Russian media, which are tightly controlled by the state, publicly criticized China’s social problems in a series of articles published in July, including discussing corruption in China’s state-run railway system. Now, China’s national infrastructure-building initiative “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR, also known as Belt and Road) has come under fire.
