Alexander Clackson
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said recently that his
meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this week in Shanghai
marked a new stage in Russia-China relations, and that the two countries
will roll out all-around cooperation. China and Russia signed a $400
billion (237.1 billion pounds) gas supply deal on Wednesday, securing
the world’s top energy user a major source of cleaner fuel and opening
up a new market for Moscow as it risks losing European customers over
the Ukraine crisis. Furthermore, the two countries began joint military
exercises in the East China Sea in a clear show of strength against
Japan, a western ally.
The
Chinese President has also openly demonstrated his desire to create a
counter-alliance to the U.S. Speaking on May 20 President Xi Jinping called for
the creation of a new Asian structure for security cooperation based on
a regional group that includes Russia and Iran and excludes the United
States. Clearly pointing a finger at the United States he called NATO an
outdated thinking of the Cold War. According to him, “We cannot just
have security for one or a few countries while leaving the rest
insecure”. In his speech Mr. Xi Jinping offered an alternative vision
for the region based on an all-inclusive regional security framework
rather than individual alliances with external actors like the United
States. China’s proposal to push forward with the ambitious Free Trade
Area of the Asia Pacific met an especially chilly reception from the
U.S., which is focused on a 12-country trade agreement known as the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, which excludes China.
The move has clearly unsettled the Western establishment. Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said
that China and Russia are becoming more aggressive as they perceive the
U.S. pulling back from world affairs. In other words, Russia and China
are standing up to the American hegemony and pushing back against the
U.S. aggression that the world had witnessed over the last few decades.
This
China-Russia alliance should be welcomed as a counter bloc to the
failing and desperate Western dominance concentrated in Washington. Ever
since the break-up of the Soviet Union, America has imposed its
economic model that favours corporations and the financial elite, while
squeezing the ordinary people. Any country that refused to bow down to
American pressure was attacked militarily under false pretexts of “civil
protection” and “national security concerns”. Unfortunately regional
powers such as Russia and China were unable to prevent America from
imposing its self-destructive neo-liberal order on other countries.
However, recently China and especially Russia have started to fight
back. Russia has averted another disastrous intervention in Syria and
has fought back against the Western-backed coup in Ukraine.
Now,
with China and Russia closely aligned, the two countries will be able
to prevent the U.S. and its Western puppets from further carrying out
its economic imperialist agenda. With the European Union crumbling under
the weight of Euro-sceptic opinion of the general public, as
illustrated by the European election results
tonight, the U.S. is losing its closest ally. The EU will have to make a
choice whether to continue to be a puppet of Washington, thus risking
the wrath of its European citizens and eventually reaching complete
self-destruction, or choosing to build closer ties with China and
Russia.
The
new alliance will stop the expansion of American and European military
as well as economic global influences. This will be a welcome step, as
Western dominance over the last few decades has only achieved more
insecurity and an economic system that benefits a few, but punishes the
many.
Western
nations, and its masters in Washington, ought to reconsider their tough
stance on Russia. In the near future it will be the new alliance that
will be making the new rules of the game, therefore, the West ought to
treat China and Russia with respect and lose the arrogant attitude that
has dominated the Western world for so many years.
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