Brian Hart, Bonny Lin, Maria Snegovaya, and Mona Yacoubian
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea (CRINK) are increasingly working together in ways that challenge the United States and global governance. The CSIS Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department released a series of briefs that leverage data to analyze the nature and degree of CRINK alignment across the economic, diplomatic, and security domains. This page draws on the data collected in those reports to highlight key insights, focusing on how China and Russia anchor CRINK cooperation and how Russia’s war in Ukraine has accelerated alignment among the four countries.
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea share a mutual desire to challenge U.S. and Western influence. Collectively, they can bring to bear considerable power on the world stage. CRINK countries are home to over one-fifth of the global population, and they generate one-quarter of global GDP. Militarily, the four countries account for roughly one-fifth of the world’s defense spending, and Russia, China, and North Korea collectively possess over half of all nuclear weapons
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