Why the China – Russia Relationship Should Worry You – Part Two

By Mark Kelton

Mark Kelton retired from CIA as a senior executive with 34 years of experience in intelligence operations including serving as CIA’s Deputy Director for Counterintelligence. He is a partner at the FiveEyes Group; a member of the Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military Academy and College; member of the National Security Advisory Board of the MITRE Corp.; member of the Day & Zimmermann Government Services Advisory Board; member of the Siemens Government Technologies Federal Advisory Board; and a member of the Board of BigMediaTV.

Ties between Russia and China go far beyond mutual lessons-learned and policy coordination.  They have entered into cooperative arrangements that pose clear dangers for the US and its allies.  The most apparent of these are in the military realm.

Mark Kelton, Former Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, CIA

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