As the Ukraine conflict worsens china has allied with russia with president
Xi Jinping backing Vladimir Putin in opposing any nato expansion.
The two powers called on nato to abandon the ideological methods of the cold
war in a joint statement released on friday after putin's meeting with Xi in
Beijing. china now joins russia in opposing the NATO stance over Ukraine.
As reported by ali Al-Jazeera china has joined russia and opposing nato
expansion. China has put on a united front with russia as the ukraine crisis
escalates, with president xi jinping joining vladimir putin in opposing
further nato expansion.
In a joint statement issued on friday after the russian president meeet Xi
in beijing the two powers called on nato to abandon the ideological
approaches of the cold war.
The meetings he's first face-to-face talks with a world leader in nearly two
years as his country hosts the 2022 winter olympics, came as western leaders
up diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the ukraine crisis.
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Schultz on
friday announced separate visits to moscow and kiev in the coming weeks. The
United States and its european partners fear russia may be readying an
attack on its neighbor given moscow's massing of more than 100,000 soldiers
near the two countries shared border.
But the kremlin denies such plans and instead blames washington and nato for
undermining the region's security.
The united kingdom has high confidence that russia is seeking to engineer a
pretext to invade ukraine. prime minister Boris Johnson spokesman has said
referring to u.s intelligence reports.
"Ican't comment on the specific intelligence but we have high confidence
russia is planning to engineer a pretext, blaming ukraine for the attack in
order to justify a russian incursion into ukraine," the spokesman said is
quoted by Al Jazeera.
Russia and china have issued a joint statement voicing opposition to any
further nato expansion. The two powers called on the u.s led alliance to
abandon its ideologized cold war approaches.
A halt to nato's eastwards edition of new member states is a key demand of
the kremlin in its standoff with the west over ukraine. The US has rejected
the proposal but said is willing to discuss other topics such as arms
control.
China supports russia's proposals to create legally binding security
guarantees in europe, according to the joint statement.
In a joint statement, the two countries affirmed that their new
relationship was superior to any political or military alliance of the cold
war era.
Friendship between the two states has no limits there are no forbidden areas
of cooperation they declared, announcing plans to collaborate in a host of
areas including space, climate change artificial intelligence and control of
the internet.
The agreement marked the most detailed and assertive statement of russian
and chinese resolve to work together and against the united states, to build
a new international order based on their own interpretations of human rights
and democracy.
Steeped in ideological discourse it was not clear whether it would
immediately translate into an increase in tangible and practical cooperation
despite putin trumpeting a new gas deal with china on friday, or was
intended as more of a statement general policy intent.
Jonathan Ayal the london-based russia think tank who spoke to reuters said
that the declaration marked a frontal rebuttal of the u.s and western view
of the world and a possible building block towards a military alliance
between russia and china. It's the most explicit articulation of the making
the world safer dictatorship strategy, he said.
It is a historic point because they both feel cornered and they feel their
moment has arrived to state their vision of the world and promote it
aggressively.
The two countries have moved closer together as both have come under
pressure from the west on a host of issues including their human rights
records and russia's military buildup near ukraine. the timing of their
announcement was highly symbolic, at a china-hosted olympics that the united
states has subjected to a diplomatic boycott.
Each went significantly further than before, they all said in explicitly
backing the other over key bones of contention with the united states and
its allies. Russia voiced its support for china's stance that taiwan is an
inalienable part of china and opposition to any form of independence for the
island.
Moscow and beijing also voiced their opposition to the august alliance
between Australia, Britain and the United States, saying it increased the
danger of an arms race in the region.
China joined russia and calling for an end to nato enlargement and supported
its demand for security guarantees from the west, issues at the heart of
moscow's confrontation with the united states and its allies over ukraine.
The two countries expressed concern about the advancement of u.s plans to
develop global missile defense and deploy its elements in various regions of
the world, combined with capacity building of high-precision non-nuclear
weapons for disarming strikes and other strategic objectives.
Elsewhere, without naming washington they criticized attempts by certain
states to establish global hegemony, fan confrontation and impose their own
standards of democracy.
Meanwhile russian state energy giants gazprom and rosneft on friday agreed
new gas and oil supply deals with beijing worth tens of billions of dollars.
The deals capitalize on putin's drive to diversify russian energy exports
away from the west, which started shortly after he came to power in 1999.
Since then russia has become china's top energy supplier and cut its
reliance on the west for revenues.
The Kremlin said the president's also discussed the need to broaden trade in
national currencies because of unpredictability surrounding the use of the
dollar.
US President Joe Biden has said Russian companies could be cut off from the
ability to trade in dollars as part of sanctions if russia invades ukraine.
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Moscow denies any such intention, but has used a build-up of more than
100,000 troops near ukraine's border to grab the attention of the west and
press its demands for security guarantees.
