Biden Pushing the Chinese and the Russians Together

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in Beijing with General Secretary of the Communist Party and President of China Xi Jinping. Photo courtesy of the President of Russia.

According to Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Joe Biden’s bungling has pushed Russia and China closer together. He writes on LewRockwell.com:

Brain-dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers are on course to destroy the world in a nuclear war. A provocative policy toward Russia alone would be bad enough. So would a provocative policy toward China. But taking on both of these powerful nations at the same time is madness. As Ron Unz says, “Thus, our own actions have forged a strong China-Russia alliance that seems likely to displace America from its dominant global position. Such an outcome would be an event of historic proportions, comparable in magnitude to the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago.”

Graham Allison, a leading foreign policy expert at Harvard, explains how the Biden gang’s policies have done this, in an article he wrote in Foreign Policy March 23: “Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to visit Moscow this week in his first trip abroad since his reelection comes as no surprise to those who have been watching carefully. When one steps back and analyzes the relationship between China and Russia, the brute facts cannot be denied: Along every dimension—personal, economic, military, and diplomatic—the undeclared alliance that Xi has built with Russian President Vladimir Putin has become much more consequential than most of the United States’ official alliances today.

Furthermore, while many Americans discount Sino-Russian military cooperation, as a former Russian national security advisor has put it to me, China and Russia have the ‘functional equivalent of a military alliance.’ China regularly participates in joint military exercises with Russia that dwarf those the United States conducts with its much more publicized ‘strategic partner,’ India. It sent soldiers to Russia’s annual Vostok exercises in September and conducts joint air and naval exercises on a near-monthly basis. Russian and Chinese generals’ staffs now have candid, detailed discussions about the threat U.S. nuclear modernization and missile defenses pose to each of their strategic deterrents. While, for decades, Russia was careful to withhold its most advanced technologies in arms sales to China, it now sells the best it has, including S-400 air defenses. The two countries share intelligence and threat assessments as well as collaborate on rocket engine research and development. More recently, Beijing and Moscow have collaborated to compete with Washington in a new era of space competition.

Their diplomatic coordination has also ramped up as Xi and Putin become increasingly convinced Washington is seeking to undermine their regimes. The two countries almost always vote together in the United Nations Security Council and reinforce each other’s political narratives. For instance, China has repeatedly refused to call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a war, instead labeling it an ‘issue,’ ‘situation,’ or ‘crisis.’ Its diplomats and propaganda megaphones echo even Russia’s most extreme claims about the war, blaming NATO for ignoring Russia’s ‘legitimate concerns’ and suggesting the United States wants to ‘fight till the last Ukrainian.’

Neither leader has made a secret of his ambitions to end U.S. hegemony and create what Xi called on Monday a ‘new model of major-country relations.’ Their success in forming new alignments of nations—including the so-called BRICS bloc and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose citizens make up two-thirds of the world’s population—demonstrates that their declarations are not merely aspirational. While U.S. talking points highlight the world’s condemnation of Putin’s invasion, Chinese and Russian diplomats note that many countries have not joined in, including the world’s largest country, the world’s largest democracy, Africa’s leading democracy, and most nations in the global south.