Experts wary about China's new coziness with Russia in the South China Sea

By Daniel Flitton
Updated July 31 2016 - 9:20pm, first published 11:16am

The alarm should have sounded a couple of months ago when Chinese commentators began quoting Vladimir Putin, that "if a fight is inevitable, go and fight first".

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