"Gaye Christoffersen is Professor of International Politics, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, Nanjing Center, Nanjing University. Recent publications include ""Sino-Russian Local Relations: Heihe and Blagoveshchensk,"" Asan Forum, (2019); ""Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and Korean Strategies for Northeast Asian Cross-Border Energy Connectivity,"" Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies Journal (2019); ""Northeast China and the Russian Far East: Positive Scenarios and Negative Scenarios,"" in International Relations and Asia’s Northern Tier: Sino-Russia Relations, North Korea, and Mongolia."