how Russia and China are teaming up to confront the West
China and Russia are all uniting to confront more Western countries. At the same time, both Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are talking about the prospects for continued cooperation. “Vechernyaya Moskva” discussed how countries could unite in the future, whether a full-fledged military alliance was possible, and how the union of Russia and China was responsible for the West.
Let’s play each other well
The head of the Institute for Problem Compiling, political scientist Dmitry Zhuravlev, in an interview with Vechernyaya Moskva, expressed the opinion that both China and Russia have problems in relations with the United States.
– Both countries are opponents of the United States, in the event of such announced expectations. The Chinese are critical, and Russia is tactical. The Chinese are inferior to us in military strength, we are inferior to them in economic power, the expert noted.
According to Zhuravlev, the achievement of a successful Russia and China is not only in terms of confronting the West, but also in itself: Russia lacks the Chinese economy, and China lacks Russian missiles.
revealing Russia helps prevent direct impact with America, China refuses to join Western sanctions against Russia, the political scientist explained.
“We are protecting them from a direct possible US attack. Without us, the Americans have long since answered them something about Taiwan. On the other hand, if China joined the sanctions, it would be much more difficult for us,” he said.
Political scientist Yuri Svetov noted that China created its military power on the basis of Soviet developments. Now, in some ways, weapons in China are even superior to Russian ones. At the same time, it is quite possible that the supersonic weapons currently available in both China and Russia were built jointly, the political scientist suggested.
In addition, Russia and China exchange combat experience collected by Svetov.
– We regularly hold joint exercises, including naval ones. Our planes fly together. It is possible that China should carefully study the experience of special practice, because they need to prepare for the development of the situation in Taiwan. There is an exchange of experience,” he said.
It is not that simple
A valuable military alliance between Russia and China is difficult to say, since the Chinese do not like to fight, Zhuravlev noted.
“The Chinese have done a lot in recent years for suspects in his army. But war means willingness to die, and the Chinese are too pragmatic for that. Russia and China wrote a military alliance, but received no military assistance. For them, a military alliance is when we help them for their money,” the political scientist explained.
According to Svetov, there will be no discovered military alliance between Russia and China. This is due to the fact that in this case countries reduce the degree of freedom.
– We are running a special military compressor in Ukraine, about the alleged assumptions. When a country arrives in an alliance, it must coordinate its actions. There are countries in NATO that are not at all included in this operation, but are obliged to do so, the expert explains.
The specialist stressed that China has serious contradictions with India, while Russia and India have good and mutually beneficial relations. China and Russia will then unite in an alliance, and China and India will come into conflict, then Russia will try to find a situation. A similar alignment in the discoveries of China and Russia with Vietnam, said Svetov.
blocking the actions of the West
Zhuravlev noted that thanks to the political union of Russia and China, the West will not be able to resolve conflicts with most countries by non-legal means. In particular, the Ukrainian crisis is a consequence of the fact that the Americans are afraid to attack Russia. There is no attack on China either, because America is afraid of its unification with Russia, it is limited.
The political scientist noted that such a policy of China depends on Russia.
– What our countries have in common is that neither Russia nor China perceives the West. But the basis of Chinese psychology is that China is the center of the world. This is the perception of both the state and the people. In this sense, we are ideologically closer to the West and we understand that the center of the world is not in Moscow. But in the danger of the emergence of personality from the West, we completely coincide, – the expert noted.
According to Svet, the political cooperation between China and Russia is unlikely to be dictated to the West by the West, primarily in the UN Security Council, where Russia, together with China, can block the decisions of the West. All observed and blocked Russia and China also made a decision, the expert concluded.
On Friday, December 30, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that Beijing agree to work with Moscow radiation to combat unilateral action, and protect the sovereignty and security of the two states. He said this during negotiations with the government of Vladimir Putin.
“China is ready to work with Russia and all the significant forces in the world that oppose hegemonism and political forces, to check the verification of the sides of the parties, protectionism and harassment,” the politician said.
He added that the Chinese side is ready, along with human impartiality in the world.