China Coming Closer To Russia For West Comfort
Friendships are becoming thick on the wrong sides- Russia and China, who are now calling each other strong friends in arms. This becomes more apparent as both leaders of the powerful nations engaged in a long video call that lasted 1hour and 30 minutes, local media has reported.
Russia is looking for security guarantees from the West and China is backing it in its attempts to do so. In their virtual summit, they have vowed to stand up against the West. So, the two very powerful nations of the world are ganging up against the rest of the world.
One of their key points of discussion was the escalating war like situation between Russia and Ukraine and the former’s desire to claim ownership of the latter. Russia wants the United States and NATO to guarantee the military alliance will not expand further eastward or deploy weapons systems in Ukraine and other countries on Russia's border.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have interacted on many occasions in the last two years discussing key movements on the global map, including the Taliban seizure of Afghanistan, building a nuclear reactor together, to name a few.
Strangely, China has also spoken to Ukrainian counterpart sometime mid of this year. China shares the border with Russia and therefore has many trade interests on mind. But energy has been the most significant as it picked huge amounts of coal from Kremlin.
G-7 countries and Kremlin invariably don’t agree. China isn’t the part of the G-7 brigade. This is one more reason for Beijing to side with kremlin, even if they don’t agree. G7 leaders have already issued a statement condemning "Russia's military build-up and aggressive rhetoric towards Ukraine." The U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom are part of the bloc of major economies. Russia is the only country as of now that has not diplomatically boycotted the Winter Olympics. Xi was most happy announcing how he looked forward to open and complete participation from Russia in the forthcoming controversial gaming event of the year.
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