Operation Moscow

I've been watching a very interesting chinese TV series about "Operation Moscow", a Chinese undercover police operation in Russia, to deal with thieves, mostly chinese nationals, who were targeting trains and stealing from passengers, on passenger trains travelling between Russia and China. In 1993, when the events occurred, the Chinese police did get cooperation from Russian authorities in identifying, capturing and extraditing the individuals involved. The contemporary series, made in 2026, however, greatly expands the nature of the entire process and operation, updating it to take into account the vastly greater rate of cooperation existing now between Chinese and Russian authorities today, turning it into a metaphor for a near super-state unifying Russia and China into one single administrative unit. The Chinese and Russian police work closely together in this series, to solve a whole range of social problems dealing with Russian and Chinese gangs, and Russian and Chinese crime in general. This series should be some indication to those in the West who feel the relationship between Russia and China is just a "marriage of convenience". All marriages are marriages of convenience, essentially, but the relationship between Russia and China is extremely convenient, for both. So, the likelihood of China "invading" Russia, at this stage, as many in the West seem to expect, is about zero. Why spoil a good thing?