for more, we are joined now from berkeley california by orville schell. he's the director of the center on us-china relations at the asia society. >> so orville, what is the strategic advantage for the alignment of russia an china again? >> well i think both russia and china find themselves at odds with the west. of course, russia and putin in the crimea and the ukraine and china in the south china sea, and the islands with japan so the tendency, i think when they find they met with this western resistance is to team up. however, one should be careful to note they have not always had a very close and friendly historical relationship. >> so what are some of the economic consequences? is there investment or potential investment between china and russia china putting money into russia or the other way around? >> well the chinese have a habit of moving into vacuums where the west will sanction a country, whether it is sudan or iran, other such countries venezuela, because it is an opportunity, and i think they view russia very much this way. russia has energy