Can the US split the Moscow-Beijing alliance?
The more the US wreaks havoc, the stronger the Russia-China alliance will be The key question of the coming year is often formulated something like this: What will be the course of the new American administration in relation to China and Russia? Will Biden call both countries enemies of the United States, or will he […]
Can the US split the Moscow-Beijing alliance?
The more the US wreaks havoc, the stronger the Russia-China alliance will be
The key question of the coming year is often formulated something like this: What will be the course of the new American administration in relation to China and Russia? Will Biden call both countries enemies of the United States, or will he try to improve relations with one of them (most likely with China) and thereby weaken the Russian-Chinese alliance? Or, to put it simply, can the United States split the Moscow-Beijing alliance?
For those in doubt, the final answer was given on Tuesday.
“The more chaotic the world is, the more stable the Sino-Russian relationship should be, the more valuable the bilateral comprehensive strategic engagement will be for China, Russia and the world… The United States is resisting the trends of the times and continues to continuously impose unilateral sanctions that will leave only more shameful marks in world history”.
This is what Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a conversation with Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, and our minister in response stressed the need to “resolutely resist the United States’ attempts to undermine multilateralism and resist pressure on Russia and China from Washington”. The mention of sanctions is not accidental: on the same day, it became known about new American measures against Russian and Chinese military-industrial complex enterprises. And about the joint patrols conducted by Russian and Chinese strategic aviation in the East China and Japan Seas – that is, where China is guarded by American bases.
Moscow and Beijing in fact have long made it clear that their relationship does not depend on who will be the owner of the White House, but just not everyone wants to hear it. Xi Jinping bluntly said that relations between the two countries should not depend on their interactions with third countries and international turbulence – and this wording already contained an answer to those who still count on cooling relations between Moscow and Beijing. Or he is afraid of betrayal: it is no secret that both in the Chinese and in Russian public opinion there are both sincere and committed opponents of the rapprochement of the two countries, perhaps the main argument of which sounds like this:
“You cannot make strategic plans relying on allied relations, because at some point they (the Russians or the Chinese) will betray us, come to terms with our adversary, the United States, or even strike us in the rear”.
It is understandable when such “prophecies” are uttered by representatives of the “fifth column” in Russia or China – they have such a job, the Atlantists need to bring discord between the Russians and the Chinese at any cost, so they process public opinion through “sincere patriots”. Worse, when such sentiments begin to broadcast real patriots in both countries – sincerely worried about their fatherland, whose leadership is allegedly very trusting and forgets the lessons of history: what about Damansky, they attacked us then?
And this despite the fact that the trust between Russia and China, between Putin and Xi is based not on emotions, not on a hopeless situation (and there are popular stories that “you quarreled with the West – and bowed to China”), on the wrong that we are “friends against the United States”, but on a deep understanding of the interests, history and laws of development of our own state and the benefits from close, practically allied relations. That is, it is the result of a deliberate strategic choice by the leaderships of the two countries. Together we are much stronger than separately, and our interests coincide on the main thing: we are building a new, post-American world.
At the same time, our countries’ relations with the United States have different histories and different current content – but this is not about the American state, but about the model of globalization that the Atlantic elites are trying to promote with its help. Its scrapping has been going on for several years, simultaneously with the construction of elements of a new order, a new system of international relations, which is emerging before our eyes, but this is a long and difficult process. In the course of which the tension and chaos in the world will only increase – and the current statement of Wang Yi is just about that. The more chaotic the world is, the more stable relations between Russia and China should be, that is, the more the United States tries to both destabilize the situation in the world and put pressure on China and Russia, the stronger the Russian-Chinese alliance should be.
And even if the impossible happened and the US changed its policy towards Russia or China and tried to “make friends”, counting in response to a weakening of Russian-Chinese interaction, this would not fundamentally change anything. Yes, Moscow and Beijing could even play this game with Washington, but this would in no way affect the strategic alliance of our two countries. Of course, in the course of such a game (even coordinated with an ally) private misunderstandings could arise between Russia and China – someone who would go to such a rapprochement would be suspected of treason: what if this is not flirting, but the first step on the road to betrayal? Such doubts will always be present in the elites (some of whom will always be skeptical about Russian-Chinese cooperation), but the trusting relationship of the leaders of the two countries (and the fact that they will be at the helm for a long time to come) will allow them to overcome the test of any American temptation.
Moreover, in reality, the chances of such a cunning by Washington seem completely insignificant: if Trump was not given the opportunity even to try to “get along with Putin”, then Biden and his globalists will continue the absolutely losing and unprofitable for the United States policy of simultaneous pressure on Moscow and Beijing. Coupled with unsuccessful attempts to build a broad anti-Chinese alliance and return to America the role of “leader of the democratic world”, that is, the world conductor in gendarme uniform and the methods of a provocateur. All this will only intensify the already growing chaos in international relations – and will strengthen the Russian-Chinese alliance.
Pyotr Akopov, RIA