On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov paid his first visit to key ally China since the invasion of Ukraine, advancing a vision of new world order.
Mr Lavrov needs his head testing.
Russia pledges to create ‘just, democratic world order’ with China https://t.co/WklP7lDjuX
— Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 (@benedictrogers) March 31, 2022
Early Wednesday, Moscow’s top diplomat landed in Huangshan, China, for a series of meetings about Afghanistan’s future, but Russia’s bloody assault on its neighbor was likely to loom large over the proceedings.
Beijing has refused to criticize the incursion and has provided diplomatic cover for a Russia that is becoming increasingly isolated.
China has been accused by US officials of indicating a “willingness” to provide military and economic aid to Russia, while US Vice President Joe Biden has compared the invasion of Ukraine to China’s 1989 suppression of protestors in Tiananmen Square.
Lavrov said the world was “living through a very serious stage in the history of international relations” in a video issued by the Russian foreign ministry ahead of a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
At the end of this reshaping of global relations, Lavrov said, “We, together with you, and with our sympathizers will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order.”
Before the meeting, the two foreign ministers were seen on Chinese official television wearing masks and shaking elbows in front of their respective country flags.
In recent years, China and Russia have grown closer, with President Vladimir Putin attending the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony last month, just days before the invasion of Ukraine.
According to CBS News:
A readout from the Chinese foreign ministry quoted Wang Yi as saying “China-Russia relations have withstood the new test of the changing international situation, maintained the correct direction of progress and shown tenacious development momentum.”
Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters earlier that Moscow and Beijing would continue efforts in “advancing global multipolarity and the democratization of international relations.”
Wang added that “China-Russia cooperation has no limits”, repeating a line used by President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to characterize ties.
“Our striving for peace has no limits, our upholding of security has no limits, our opposition towards hegemony has no limits,” Wang said.
Trending Politics commented:
Is a Chinese and Russian world order really that scary? I think it comes down to the fact that personal freedoms are destroyed by socialist and communistic governments. If you don’t care about personal freedoms, there isn’t a problem.
On the other hand, if you are concerned about personal freedoms and smaller government, then this should scare the s**t out of you.
The current state of affairs in U.S. politics has seen the Democrats and the media pushing for policies that mirror the socialistic ideas of the Chinese.
Sources: Trendingpolitics, Cbsnews, Themoscowtimes
In their mind, they are the NEW World Order. Yes my friends I will remind everyone, there is even a rich and a poor even in Communism. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, just like the capitalism the liberal commie Democrats seem to complain about. Nothing goes on in Russia without Putin getting a piece of the action. Xi of Communist China has a bank account that could choke a horse. The Capitalism and Democracy XI and Communist china complain about, Xi does alright for himself on par with the corrupt politicians in the U.S. The countries that the U.S. complain about as being corrupt, America should be right up there in the top 10.