Russian President, Vladimir Putin, and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, denounced Friday in a joint statement the influence of the United States and the role of Western military alliances in Europe and Asia.
Le Monde with AFP
Russia and China have published on Friday 4 February, a joint declaration to denounce the American influence and the role of Western military alliances – the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO) on the one hand, and the Trilateral Australian Covenant, United Kingdom, United States (Aukus) on the other hand -, the dentabilizers.
The Russo-Chinese declaration “on the entry of international relations in a new era” was published on the occasion of the meeting of Russian presidents, Vladimir Putin, and Chinese, Xi Jinping, in Beijing, just before the Opening of the Olympic Winter Games.
In this document, the two countries – to the ever more tense relations with Washington – say “opposed to any future enlargement of NATO”, echoing the first of Moscow requirement to achieve de-escalation of Russo tensions -occidentals in Ukraine. They call “the North Atlantic Alliance to give up its ideologized approaches dating from the cold war”, a line defended beak and nails by Russia.
Russia and China are behind the concept of “the indivisibility of safety”, on which the Kremlin is based to claim a departure of NATO from its neighborhood, arguing that the security of one can not to make the costs of others, despite the right of each state, and therefore Ukraine, to choose its alliances.
Strategic agreements signed
The two countries also denounce “the negative influence for peace and stability in the United States Indo-Pacific Strategy region”. They say “concerned” by the creation in 2021 of the United States Military Alliance with the United Kingdom and Australia (Aukus), considering that this Union, particularly around the manufacture of nuclear submarines, ” Touches questions of strategic stability “.
The creation of Aukus had been strongly denounced by China, while the United States considers a priority their competition with Beijing in Asia and the Pacific.
In economic terms, both countries have signed strategic agreements without revealing the amounts. Russian Petroleum Rosneft and the CNPC Chinese oil group signed a supply contract of 100 million tonnes of Russian oil to China via ten years Kazakhstan. Rosneft claims to be the largest oil exporter for China (7% of Chinese annual gross demand). Gazprom and CNPC also signed a new gas supply contract.
“Once the project has reached its full capacity, the volume of supply (…) will increase by ten billion cubic meters to reach a total of 48 billion cubic meters per year”, including 38 billion meters Cubes delivered with the existing Power of Siberia gas pipeline, according to the Russian gas giant.