Cossack25A1
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No, not really except the US led alliance in Asia . The Chinese work on the dream of building a close military tie with the Russians, with the goal of a military alliance. Now that dream is burst. Do you know why? There's something most Chinese don't understand. It's more than just sharing the same enemies and strategic goals.
It fails because one of the most important ingredients is missing between in the China and Russia relationship: trust.
A military alliance requires a total trust between the parties. If you are brothers in arms, you are sure of full support of your comrade in an event of a confrontation.
Can Russia trust China? No.
Can Japan trust America? Yes.
Can Germany rely on US led NATO if the country is under attack of a hostile enemy? Yes.
Japan knows America will keep the promise to come to help if Japan is attacked by a enemy for instance China. Should in one day Japan and Germany have the feeling that America is reluctant to keep the treaty, the consequences will be dramatic.
Trust is the basis for everything. Any relationship without trust is doomed to fail.
An informal alliance is better as it removes the burden being dedicated to a war specially if we are going to look at what happened to NATO when the War on Terror began back in 2001 although if I my history correctly, NATO was created to counter the Soviet Union and later the Warsaw Pact and was supposed to be dissolved when the Soviet Union collapsed.