Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks in Beijing on Thursday and agreed to deepen military cooperation, as China has brushed off US warnings about its relationship with Russia.
According to The South China Morning Post, Russia and China released a joint statement that said they would “further deepen mutual military trust and cooperation” by expanding joint military exercises, increasing air and sea patrols, and strengthening their coordination under bilateral and multilateral frames.
Xi also renewed a call for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. “Both sides agree that a political settlement of the Ukraine crisis is the correct direction,” he said. “China’s position on this issue has been consistent and clear, including … the respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries and the legitimate security concerns of all parties.”
China has consistently called for peace talks in Ukraine throughout the war, while the US and most of NATO have opposed the idea and flooded weapons into the country. Regardless, the US and NATO have accused China of fueling the conflict by increasing trade with Russia, a natural step for two countries facing similar pressure from the West.
China doesn’t provide weapons to Russia, but the US points to the export of technology that can be used to build weapons as evidence of Beijing providing “material support” to the Russian military. The US recently sanctioned 20 Chinese companies for trading with Russia.
While Putin was in Beijing, the Pentagon issued a fresh warning to China over its relationship with Russia. Ely Ratner, assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, spoke with a Chinese military official and raised “serious concern over the [Peoples Republic of China’s] support for Russia’s defense industrial base that enables Russia’s war in Ukraine.”
hmm, “… multilateral frames” ?? Iran perhaps?
So help me, every day it seems the US sounds more and more like a walking definition of “insanity” !
Definitely Iran and probably North Korea…! More countries would be in horizon…! The East NATO is borne…!
AW only mentioned the military angle & I considered but eliminated NK 🙂 You, however, make a good point re: more countries as a later read story had Putin including the “new world order.” Still don’t see NK as a positive value add but …. spitballing, what about Egypt or the Saudis? Not East NATO, maybe Asia NATO 🙂 ?
Egypt and Saudi Arabia are too much dependent on US… East Alliance would be a better name for this integration and it could include countries outside Asia such as South Africa or perhaps Brazil…! I mentioned North Korea because US is intimated by that country…!
Yes but Egypt-Israel relations dicy now re:Rafah Sisi warns, Israel ignores, rinse/repeat, in violation of treaty, Sisi’s threatening to suspend it, he looks weak as hell. In BRICKS+, Putin visited last year, Brazil is good, Egypt is payback 🙂
…And guess what…? Putin is traveling to North Korea soon…!
Good going WASPs. The largest land mass just became even bigger blob.
A nice, fat target.
The US recently sanctioned 20 Chinese companies for trading with Russia.
Somehow I doubt that any of the 20 companies have anything to do with wealthy US campaign contributors.
In a big middle finger to Blinker and America President Xi greeted President Putin as his “Great Friend” and rolled out the red carpet for him.
Mean while Joey Biden doesn’t know what time of day it is or what planet he is on!
Thank goodness the exceptional exception eschews military entanglements https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/08d897b208a33ed6d0976f44dd77a502270dc138b6949d5e1a81d5f438f04734.jpg by example
We are sanctioning everybody who welcomes Putin. Then they welcome him like …a hero!? …like an Emperor!? Why? That is “Unprovoked and Unjustified!”
There are stupid men in important places in America.
China needs to wait its turn quietly and politely. Otherwise, they could be making a big mistake.
US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says NATO will deploy troops to Ukraine
@Andre__Damon
11 hours ago
In a major escalation of the US-NATO war with Russia in Ukraine, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown told the New York Times Thursday that the NATO military alliance will “eventually” send significant numbers of active-duty NATO troops to Ukraine, which the newspaper said meant the deployment was “inevitable.”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/17/smzs-m17.html
Here we go. Way to go Blinken, Sullivan, Kirby, Biden. Sheesh. Morons.
Congressional budget debates require war against Earth and Life.
Biden and company, the most clueless bunch of jackoffs I’ve seen in politics.
Tangentially, they (US, Ukraine) are burying early accomplice, Kolomoisky. He was an early funder of the neonazi militias, as well as Zelensky benefactor, and was the true owner of Burisma. He got appointed as a governor in Ukraine after the coup, and supposedly shortly after, Hunter got hired.
Ukrainian oligarch and former Zelensky backer Kolomoisky charged with attempted murder
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/18/oemy-m18.html
Pentagon is sleep and should know its warnings worth shit…! The more US warnings, the more East alliance… That goes without saying… sort of like Reverse Psychology, but to your loss…!