Putin’s plan for NATO: we will expand cooperation with China
Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions on current affairs at the Valday International Club meeting in Sochi.
Emphasizing that Russia will develop cooperation with China against NATO expansion, Putin said: “The desire of Western countries, and especially the United States, to expand NATO’s borders to the territory of the Russian Federation was one of the most important reasons for creating and provoking the Crisis in Ukraine. “Now they are doing the same thing in East (Asia), creating different closed military groups,” he said.
Putin emphasized that they will also develop economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and create new logistics routes by creating synergy between projects within the scope of the China-led Belt and Road Initiative and the infrastructure networks of the Eurasian Economic Community. led by Russia.
“A VERY IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT”
Underlining that cooperation between Russia and China is focused on producing positive results for the two countries and their partners around the world, Putin said, regarding the new step of expansion of the BRICS community, of which the two countries are members : “This is a very important development.” . “It is proof of the development of authority in the world and the desire of countries to participate in a format of cooperation that does not force or impose on them,” he said.
“GEOPOLITICAL FEARS”
Putin assessed that US policy towards China is based on “geopolitical fears” stemming from Beijing’s growing power, and that the effort to create blocs to maintain Western hegemony threatens world peace, and stated: “Cooperation between Russia and China It is, of course, important in the world.” “It serves as a stabilizing factor,” he said.
“RUSSIA AND CHINA ARE THE TARGET”
Putin argued that Russia-China cooperation benefits other countries, while the US-led Western alliance forces others to comply with the “norms and rules” it has determined, and said:
“They create an ‘enemy image’ of anyone who is not willing to blindly follow what Western elites say. The West always needs an enemy to be able to justify its tyrannical actions and its policy of expansion with the argument of fighting him. “Countries like Russia and China are the target of this,” he said. (AA)