Russia and China are proof that an alternative basis of worldwide relations is possible. And luckily, both are strong enough to dominate for the sake of peace.
For lots of observers around the world, the cordial and cooperative relations between Russia and China are motivating, precisely at a time of mounting global stress and belligerence.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hailed the bilateral relations in between Russia and China as a model for inter-state cooperation in the 21st century.
In a videoconference this week with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, the 2 leaders revealed warm greetings of friendship. Putin explained the border in between their nations as representing “a belt of eternal peace and good-neighborliness”.
President Xi stated that both countries based their sound relations on concepts of shared regard and non-interference in internal affairs, in accordance with worldwide law and the UN Charter. Both nations, too, he noted, were committed to advancing people-centered development as a real symptom of democracy and human rights.
Describing the United States and its Western allies, the Chinese leader adroitly mentioned how “global forces” had appointed themselves the right to meddle in the affairs of China and Russia under the duplicitous guise of advocating democracy and human rights. In doing so, these foreign powers were “running over” all over worldwide law and stoking dangerous stress.
It is tough to disagree with that assessment. Just in recent weeks, the United States and its allies in the G7, NATO and European Union have actually been enhancing allegations versus Russia and China over alleged malign conduct. It’s all noise and fury signifying little in the way of compound. Step back from the shrill rhetoric and sensational claims and what is actually evident is an effort to manipulate public opinion into accepting Western aggression towards Russia and China. The poachers are making themselves the gamekeepers in an audacious inversion of reality.
The Western powers arrogantly assume the right to rebuke over an overwelming array of concerns. There is a huge media campaign of public understanding management going on. Simply put, propaganda and psychological gaslighting.
Russia and China are accused of “authoritarianism”; of abusing human rights; of threatening Ukraine on the one hand and Taiwan on the other. China is condemned for declared “genocide” versus its Uighur individuals and “as a result” the U.S. and its allies are conducting a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.
The evidence for all these tendentious claims is lightweight if non-existent.
The United States and the European Union are ruthless in their allegations of a Russian military build-up and danger to invade Ukraine. Sanctions are drawn up to potentially paralyze the Russian economy. However where’s the evidence or even reputable logic? The U.S. and European governments and Western media have actually not reported any substantive proof to support their claims versus Russia. Moscow has regularly and categorically rejected these claims as “hysterical nonsense”.
Russian troops are on Russian territory. The supposed satellite images portraying military accumulation “on Ukraine’s borders” are of Russian troops in established bases such as Yelnya in Smolensk Oblast numerous kilometers from the border. On the other hand, American and NATO warplanes and warships are progressively enormous Russia’s borders in unscheduled maneuvers countless kilometers from their bases.
This is all ludicrous and is hardly worthwhile rebutting every allegation given that it is time-consuming to do so. Intriguing stories are diversions from reality.
The germane point is this: the U.S. and its Western allies are self-anointed to throw pejorative claims at Russia and China when the truth is they are hurling bricks in glasshouses. Washington and its European partners have run amok for years, ruining nations with prohibited foreign wars, eliminating en masse civilians from drone assassinations and indiscriminate bombings. These criminal governments have no embarassment in smearing others with accusations that resonate a thousand-fold with the dreadful truth of their own abhorrent misbehavior.
Simply take a look at some occasions this week. Russia has called on the United States and its NATO allies to agree on a shared basis for security in Europe referring to its borders. So far, the U.S.-led military bloc has rebuffed Moscow’s sensible concerns. NATO’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg arrogantly dismissed Russia’s appeals for the bloc to stop its eastward growth. (Somehow it seems fitting that this automaton is reportedly using to end up being the next head of Norway’s central bank after he steps down from NATO. It’s all just careerism and payoffs for Stoltenberg, who, as the quip goes, is more secretary than general.)
Then we have the European Union’s unelected wooden president Ursula von Der Leyen announcing that the bloc has prepared sanctions that will have “massive consequences” on Russia’s economy “in the event of further military hostility on Ukraine”. Based upon what? What aggressiveness is she speaking about? The one that the United States intelligence agencies have informed her to mouth like a ventriloquist? She is certainly not referring to the aggression of the U.S. and NATO funneling billions of dollars of weapons into a Neo-Nazi routine in Kiev that is waging a war against a civilian population in Southeast Ukraine for the last almost 8 years. (Russian President Putin is right to describe that siege as resembling genocide.)
Western media report breathlessly on how Russia and China have “seen their relations weaken with the West”. However such media don’t discuss or investigate why such wear and tear is occurring.
It is basically instructive that the United States and its European powers are self-evidently acting as Neo-colonialists and imperialists. They presume to have the exceptional right to interfere in other nations based upon self-righteous arrogance and self-serving machinations.
It is ridiculous that the United States is declaring a diplomatic boycott of China’s Olympic Games given its own legion of ostentatious violations and criminal activities versus humanity, previous and present. Australia and Canada have living legacies of genocide and yet they too have the brass-necks to pontificate to China about unsubstantiated claims of human rights abuses.
Decreasing this negative, hypocritical course is foregone conclusion for Western states. It is their fundamental modus operandi. However eventually it is futile. It undoubtedly causes conflict and war.
Western relations towards Russia and China are ending up being crystal clear in their incorrigible belligerence. The United States and its capitalist-imperialist partners-in-crime just can not exist side-by-side with other nations in peace and cooperation. The concepts of peace and lawful respect for others are anathemas.
The poisonous, devastating habits of Western powers is more and more a transparent disgrace in today’s world. By contrast, Russia and China are evidence that an alternative basis of global relations is possible. And thankfully, both are strong enough to dominate for the sake of peace.