Video Infoblog: China & Russia strengthen friendship, blasting Western 'neocolonialism' & US militarism
Putin met with Xi Jinping in Beijing, where China and Russia released a joint statement blasting Western "colonialism and hegemonism", supporting a multipolar world and more representation for the Global South, and calling for de-dollarization and expansion of BRICS. Ben Norton analyzes the historic document.
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:49 Putin's visit to China
1:42 Summary of the joint statement
4:58 Russia deepens economic integration with China
7:18 China expands trade with anti-hegemonic nations
8:50 Note on translation of joint statement
11:20 75th anniversary of China-Russia relations
13:46 Supporting Global South & multipolar world
17:58 Condemning Western neocolonialism & hegemony
20:49 Expanding cooperation
23:03 "True multilateralism"
25:14 Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter
27:35 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
28:33 Expanding BRICS
30:10 Nuclear weapons
30:33 Condemning US militarism
34:26 Climate change & pollution
36:01 Ukraine war
38:58 Non-interference
40:29 ASEAN
40:46 East Asia
41:33 North Korea
42:36 West Asia (Middle East) & Palestine
44:07 Afghanistan
45:18 Africa
46:25 Latin America
48:17 Outro
Transcript
Intro
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the United States is engaged in a new Cold War against both Russia and China
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the US and Europe are arming Ukraine and fighting a proxy war against Russia and
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now the US is supporting separatism in Taiwan sending weapons and troops and
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trying to provoke a conflict with China and at the same time the US has imposed
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sanctions and Export restrictions and tariffs on Russia and China and this is
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all part of an attempt to try to maintain US economic dominance but in
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reality what it has done is it has continued to push China and Russia
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closer together and they have become very important strategic partners and we
Putin's visit to China
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saw a clear example of this this may when Russia's President Vladimir Putin
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traveled to China to meet with his Chinese counterpart she jeene King and
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this was the 43rd meeting between presidents XI and Putin 43rd meeting
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which shows just how close not only she and Putin have become but how close
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China and Russia have become now during Putin's trip China and Russia signed a
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lengthy joint statement it is 8,000 words long I read through the statement
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and I highlighted some of the the main points and I want to discuss them today because this is a very important
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historic document that shows that China and Russia are collaborating in
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basically every domain in the statement they emphasized that China Russia relations are at their best level in
Summary of the joint statement
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history they emphasized that their goal is to build a multi-polar world that the
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world is already multi-polar but they're trying to make it even more multi-polar ER with the goal of the
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democratization of international relations in the same vein they called
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for expanding the bricks block and strengthening the Shanghai cooperation
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organization and Russia and China emphasized that they support the global
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South that Asia Latin America and Africa must play an increasingly important role
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in the world and in that same vein China and Russia condemned what they referred
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to as neocolonialism and hegemonism which was a clear reference to Western aggressive
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imperialist foreign policy trying to dominate the world and the West's constant attempt to start wars to meddle
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in foreign countries Affairs to exploit Global South countries likewise in the
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statement China and Russia harshly condemned the US for militarizing ing
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really the entire world militarizing East Asia and the Pacific region
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militarizing West Asia the so-called Middle East militarizing Australia
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trying to start a war over Taiwan fueling the war in Ukraine China and
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Russia were very critical of the US also for trying to militarize space and China
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and Russia said that they oppos the militarization of space and of course Beijing and Moscow proposed many
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different forms of cooperation most importantly economic cooperation and
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dedollarization China and Russia emphasized that they want to reduce the use of the dollar not
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only in their own bilateral trade but in international trade to weaken the
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hegemony of the US dollar which is used as a geopolitical weapon the US has
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weaponized its currency and tried to impose its political will on other countries through the use of its
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currency and the International Financial system that is dominated by Washington and China and Russia emphasized that the
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only solution is true multilateralism true International
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democracy and multipolarity moving away from Western
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hegemony the unipolar order in which the US tried to dominate the entire world
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and instead giving an equal voice and equal representation to all countries especially the countries in the global
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South who represent the global majority and yet were colonized by the Western
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Imperial powers and still today the West maintains this very neocolonial
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hegemonic mentality that tries to control them these were all issues that
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were addressed in this 8,000 word statement published by China and Russia
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I'm going to be looking at the statement in a moment but first I want to briefly review some points that were revealed in
Russia deepens economic integration with China
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an article in the financial times the major British newspaper which is titled
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China Russia and economic friendship that could rattle the world now of
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course the financial times is very biased against both China and Russia and in many ways represents the interests of
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Western governments and in particular Western investors Western capitalists
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but the financial times does have some very useful information especially useful data and in this report they note
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that Putin's visit this may was his 43d meeting with President XI and they
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emphasized that economic links between the two sides are booming the newspaper
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pointed out that bilateral trade between China and Russia reached $ 240 billion
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in 2023 that is up 26%
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against the year before 2022 that is a massive increase in just one year and I
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should add that while China and Russia have been trading more and more they have basically completely
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dollarized their trade this was reported in April by Russian State media Russian
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foreign minister Ser lavro reported that Russia and China have almost completely shered the dollar when doing business
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with more than 90% of Mutual payments being done in National currencies
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China's currency the rimi and Russia's currency the ruble they have dropped the
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dollar and now they're encouraging many other countries around the world to trade with their own local currencies
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and dollariz as well and there's a very useful chart that shows that since
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2021 EU exports to Russia have haved and they decline more and more by the year
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whereas since 2020 Chinese exports to Russia have more than doubled so we can
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see a clear Trend Here China and Russia are more and more deeply integrating not
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only politically but economically whereas Europe is becoming more and more
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economically dependent on the United States and it's not just Russia in fact China has been deepening its economic
China expands trade with anti-hegemonic nations
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relations in particular with countries that are trying to resist Western hegemony the way the fin ccial times
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puts it is that China now is the biggest trading partner of 120 countries the
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majority of countries on Earth including those antagonistic to the us-led West
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that's the language the newspaper uses really countries that are resisting us-led Western Imperial hegemony and
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there's another very interesting chart here that shows that China's trade has
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been increasing with many countries including Russia Iran Venezuela North
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Korea bellarus Saudi Arabia and even in Central Europe with Serbia and Hungary
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and president XI just took a trip to France Serbia and Hungary and deepened
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economic relations in particular with Central Europe now while the West has been trying to economically strangle
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Russia US President Joe Biden said that his goal was to turn the Russian currency the ruble into Rubble well
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meanwhile Russia has instead been trading more and more with China and in
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20123 Russia overtook Saudi Arabia to become China's biggest supplier of oil
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so those were some concrete examples of how China and Russia have been deepening their economic relations now I want to
Note on translation of joint statement
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analyze this 8000w joint statement that was signed by presidents XI and Putin
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when the Russian leader visited Beijing this may now I need to acknowledge a very important detail here which is that
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this official statement right now as of the 25th of May is only available in the
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original Chinese and the original Russian languages you can find those
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documents in the original language at the official government websites in both
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China and Russia now I was waiting several days to see if they were going to publish an official English language
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translation and I spoke with several journalists in China who work at Chinese
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media Outlets I also consulted with several Chinese professors academics at
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top universities I asked multiple people if they know or if they could ask if
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they know anyone in the foreign Ministry who could see if they were going to publish an English language translation
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and everyone told me that they don't know and many of them said they do not think there will be a full English
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language translation and today is the 25th of May it's already been over a
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week so I wanted to go ahead and do this analysis because I don't want to wait too long people you know there's a lot
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of crazy things happening in the world I don't want people to forget about this important trip that happened and so I
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should emphasize that in the description below I link to an article that I published at my website geopolitical
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economy.com and there I published a an un official English language translation
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of the full text of the joint statement however there's a big asterisk here this
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translation relies mostly on a machine translation and then I also manually
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looked over and ABD I checked the machine translation and the original and
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I did this using the original Chinese I don't speak Russian my Chinese is definitely not super great I'm not an
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expert on Chinese I'm studying Chinese and learning more but from the Chinese
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that I know using AI using different machine translators putting that all together I think this is a relatively
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accurate translation although again it's unofficial and it's not going to be 100%
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accurate now the first thing to note about this statement is that it marks the 75th anniversary of relations
75th anniversary of China-Russia relations
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between China and Russia and it's in 10 parts and part one of the
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statement notes that the Soviet Union was the first country in the world to
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recognize and establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and it notes that of course the
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relationship has gone through turbulence it doesn't mention the sinos Soviet split and all of that complicated
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history but it does say that the status of bilateral relations has been
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continuously upgraded reaching the highest level in history as
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a comprehensive strategic Partnership of cooperation for a new era and it
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emphasizes again that China Russia relations are at their best level in
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history and they also emphasize that the current China Russia relations transcend
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the military political Alliance model of the Cold War era they are characterized
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by non-alignment non-confrontation and non-targeting of
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third countries so in diplomatic speak what they're saying here is that our
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close partnership is not directed specifically at the United States we
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have our own relations we have our own reasons for being close partners and we
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are officially non-aligned is what they say although of course we know that they're being very diplomatic but in
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reality they are Partners who are jointly resisting us-led Western
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imperialism and they actually talk about that a bit later on in the statement but
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they they say they emphasize that their partnership is not temporary it is not
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influenced by external factors so they want to emphasize how important it is
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and then going on Russia emphasized that it adheres to the one China principle
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recognizing Taiwan as an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China
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and in return China said that it supports Russia in maintaining its National Security and stability and
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opposes external forces interfering in Russia's Internal Affairs these kinds of
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statements are pretty normal they're not new but I think the next part of the statement is very significant because
Supporting Global South & multipolar world
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Here China and Russia talk about the rise of the global South the
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increasingly multi-polar world and they condemn Western neocolonialism and
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hegemony so I'm going to read basically the entire paragraph here because I
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think this is very important both sides pointed out that the accelerating evolution of the
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world's major changes and the rising status and strength of emerging powers
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in the global South are rapidly becoming apparent these objective factors
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accelerate the re R distribution of development potential resources and
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opportunities favoring emerging markets in developing countries and promoting
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the democratization of international relations a few important words there
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again the rise of the global South redistribution toward the global south
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of resources and potential and democratization of international
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relations and International fairness and Justice and in contrast to that China
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and Russia condemned the west Western imperialism although they were a little
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more diplomatic about it they said quote in contrast countries adhering to
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hegemonism and power politics are going against this trend attempting to replace
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and subvert the recognized International order based on international law with a
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quot rules-based order this is a very clear reference to the US and the EU
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which are trying to replace the international law-based order with the so-called rules-based order in which the
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West makes the rules and orders everyone else around so here we can see China and
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Russia saying very clearly we are allied with the global South the global
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majority and then they continue saying that they are independent forces in the
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process of building a multi-polar world very important China and Russia
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emphasize multiple times in this statement that their goal is quote the
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realization of an equitable and orderly multi-polar world and the
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democratization of international relations they want to unite to build a
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just and reasonable multi-polar world so in one sentence there they say that
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three times that they want a multi-polar world this if you know how diplomatic
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statements go if you can read this kind of diplomatic language you can see that they are emphasizing this how important
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it is to them furthermore China and Russia also emphasize the importance of
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noninterference and the respect for sovereignty they said quote both sides
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believe that all countries have the right to independently choose their development models and political
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economic social systems based on their National conditions and people's will
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opposing interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries also
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opposing unilateral sanctions without international law basis or un Security
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Council authorization so here they're saying look we oppose this Western policy of trying to blockade independent
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countries like Cuba which has been under illegal us sanctions for over 60 years or Venezuela or Iran or Syria or
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Zimbabwe or the dprk many other countries the West has tried to
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suffocate these countries the US has tried to organize coups and color revolutions and China and Russia are
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saying that we oppose that all countries have a right to choose their own
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development model their own system if they want to be socialist if they want to be communist if they want to be
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nationalist they have the right to do that furthermore I think this is such an
Condemning Western neocolonialism & hegemony
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important line in in this very long joint statement China and Russia said
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that the quote neocolonialism and hegemonism completely contradict the
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current trend of the times now I have read a lot of these joint statements
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they have often used the word hegemony or hegemonism I have not seen them use the word
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neocolonialism this is very important I've seen Russia has used that language
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separately but now China is also using this language of condemning neocolonialism and hegemonism and
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clearly they are referencing Western neocolonialism so this is a very
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powerful statement and here you can see that China and Russia are clearly
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stating what they see as the ideal order in the world a multi-polar order based
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on true multilateralism on International democracy in which the global South has
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equal representation and the Western hegemonic order is relegated to the dust
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bin of History it's very easy to see why so many countries in the global South
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are supporting China and Russia are not joining in the West in their new Cold
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War their proxy war in Ukraine their attempt to start a war over Taiwan much
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of the global South is either neutral or openly allied with China and Russia
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because they prefer a multi-polar world in which the global South nations are
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allowed to implement their own National developmental model if they have a
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socialist government the US is not going to be able to try to overthrow them and impose sanctions on them and blockade
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them like the US has done to the people of Cuba for over 60 years this is why in
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many parts of the global South which represent 87% of the world population they are the global majority and many of
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these countries China and Russia are seen as standing up to Western
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colonialism imperialism and hegemony and that's why they're quite popular it's
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not because the global South is being taken over by China and Russia and all this nonsense that we hear in the
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western media that Western media propaganda is simply psychological
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projection for the fact that the Western Powers colonized almost the entire world
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the vast majority of the South and they are today trying to reimpose their
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hegemony and they are unable to do so because we are in an increasingly
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multi-polar World us-led Western unipolarity is dead and buried and this
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joint statement is further Testament to that now obviously this statement is
Expanding cooperation
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very very long and I'm not going to go through all of it in great detail I've already highlighted some of the most
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important points but now want to briefly kind of summarize the other sections of this 10-part statement part two is about
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security and Military cooperation and China and Russia pledge to further deepen military Mutual trust and
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cooperation and to expand the scale of joint training and exercises in part
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three they talk about deepening economic relations promoting the economic and social development and common prosperity
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of both countries that's an important term in Chinese common Prosperity that
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President XI has been promoting a lot they called to also consolidate China Russia energy cooperation and of course
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they reiterated their commitment to dollarization to quote increase the share of local currencies in bilateral
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trade financing and other economic activities they also called for further
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cooperation in industrialization industrial and Innovation Fields they called to also
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conduct mutually beneficial cooperation in cuttingedge Technologies in information and communication sectors
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also in AI artificial intelligence which of course is a very rapidly developing
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sector they also call to consolidate their long-term partnership in the
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exploration of outer space later on they condemn us attempt to militarize outer
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space and China and Russia call to develop Transportation routes between
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the two countries which is of course part of the economic integration then they also call to
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further deepen their development of the Bel and Road initiative and the greater
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Eurasian partnership it's part of this attempt to integrate Eurasia they in
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part four they talk about cultural exchange and educational exchange so
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they want to expand and enhance bilateral study programs and language programs in each country they want to
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deepen scientific and technological exchanges in part five they talk about
True multilateralism
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International institutions and quote both sides reaffirmed their commitment
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to building a more just and stable multipolar International architecture
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that's the fourth time this word has been used multi-polar they call for fully respecting and abiding by the
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purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter unconditionally
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safeguarding true multilateralism so this is very important two important
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points here they say true multilateralism what is false multilateralism well what they're
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referencing is when the Western Powers claim that they support multilateralism but in reality the US in particular has
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tried to undermine multilateral bodies especially the United Nations trying to
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destroy basically any attempt by other countries to have a voice and the US has abused as veto power and prevented other
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countries from being able to join the security Council preventing Global South
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nations from having more representation so China and Russia are saying that they want true multilateralism the other
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important point to stress is that China and Russia are not calling for burning down the existing International
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institutions on the contrary what they're emphasizing is they support the
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United Nations structure now this is important because because it's a common talking point in the western media and
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among Western governments they claim that China and Russia are so-called revisionist powers that are trying to
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revise the existing World Order which of course the West created to serve its
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interests the so-called liberal International order or the rules-based international order in which the US
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makes the rules and orders everyone around no China and Russia are emphasizing that they support the United
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Nations centered International law-based order they're not trying to replace that
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and what they're actually saying is that the West is trying to replace that by
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undermining International multilateralism and international democracy and in this vein China and
Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter
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Russia called for strengthening a group that is called the group of friends in
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defense of the UN Charter what is this it's an association of countries almost
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entirely from the global South that was created in 2021 in order to defend the
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UN Charter and in particular article two of the UN Charter that calls for respect
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for sovereignty and noninterference and other countries cannot intervene in their Internal
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Affairs and Venezuela played an important role in helping to create this group in 2021 of course this is when the
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US the Trump Administration was leading this coup attempt trying to replace Venezuela's democratically elected
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constitutional government with this puppet ju Guido who never participated in a presidential election his only
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claim to be so-called president was the fact that the US appointed him that and was trying to impose him and this group
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of friends in defense of the UN Charter consists of the following countries Algeria Angola Belarus Bolivia Cambodia
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China Cuba the dprk Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Iran Lao
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Nicaragua Mali Palestine the state of Palestine as part the Russian Federation
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St Vincent and the Grenadines Syria Venezuela and Zimbabwe so mostly the
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global South along with Russia going back to their joint statement China and
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Russia called to strength in this group they also said that they opposed the
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politicization of human rights and double standards and the use of
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so-called human rights to interfere in other Count's Internal Affairs so again
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emphasizing the importance of non-interference and sovereignty likewise Russia and China emphasize that
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they condemn unilateral actions that bypass the UN Security Council violating
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International laws such as the UN Charter so here they're once again referencing the US which constantly
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vetos resolutions that call for peace in Gaza and recognizing Palestine in part
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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six of this lengthy statement China and Russia talk about global South oriented
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institutions they start with the Shanghai cooperation organization they call for deepening that organization's
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role so it can play a greater role in building a new just and stable multi-polar International order it's the
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fifth time that word has been mentioned about multipolarity and for people who don't know the Shanghai cooperation
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organization started as a security block and has expanded it now involves economic integration of Eur Asia it
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includes the most populous countries on Earth China and India it also includes
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Russia Pakistan Iran has officially joined and several Central Asian
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countries have joined and there are now other countries in Asia and North Africa
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that have expressed interest in eventually joining as well now going back to this joint statement China and
Expanding BRICS
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Russia also say that they they support expanding bricks they say that they
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quote promote the integration of new members into existing brics cooperation
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mechanisms and they called to quote uphold the brics spirit enhance the
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influence of the brics mechanism in international affairs an agenda setting
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and actively engage in brics plus cooperation brics plus the fact that
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they use that brics plus is a reference to the fact that dozens more countries
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in the global South want to join bricks and what they're essentially communicating here is that brics plus
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now represents an entire family of non-aligned countries that are trying to resist hegemony and push for a more
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multi-polar World furthermore they emphasize the issue of dollarization for
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the third time in this statement saying that they promote Dialogue on the use of
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local currencies payment instruments and platforms for bricks trade transactions
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so they want to dollarize economic transactions within bricks and then for
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the second time in the statement they talk about the importance of the global South they say that they want to enhance
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the representation of global South countries in the global economic governance system
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they welcome the African Union's membership in the G20 and they are willing to make constructive efforts for
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the common interests of emerging markets in developing countries in part seven
Nuclear weapons
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they talk about the danger of nuclear proliferation and China and Russia
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reaffirm their commitment to the Joint statement of the leaders of the five nuclear weapon States on preventing
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nuclear war and avoiding arms races so they're saying that we do not want a new
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arms race we do not obviously want nuclear war here at the same time they
Condemning US militarism
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also condemn the United States for militarizing multiple regions of the
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world I think this is another very important part of the statement and I'm going to read basically this entire
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paragraph because it's so critical both sides Express serious concern once again about the United
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States attempts to disrupt strategic stabil in order to maintain its absolute
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military advantage and they name some of the things that the US has been doing including building a Global missile
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defense system deploying missile defense systems around the world and in outer
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space they condemn NATO's nuclear sharing Arrangements in Europe they also
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condemn the alus agreement between the US the UK and Australia which includes
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nuclear submarine cooperation they also condemn us plans to provide landbased intermediate range
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missiles to allies in the Asia Pacific and European regions so here they're
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acknowledging that the US is militarizing the asia-pacific region and
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Europe and here I'm going to read this entire part because this is very important China and Russia write quote
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the United States under the pretext of conducting joint exercises with its allies specifically targeting China and
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Russia has begun to take action to deploy groundbased intermediate range
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missile systems in the asia-pacific region both sides Express serious
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concerns about this the US claims that it will continue to promote the above
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practices and eventually normalize the deployment of missiles
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worldwide both sides strongly condemn these extremely
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destabilizing measures that directly threaten China and Russia's security and
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will strengthen coordination and cooperation to address the US's
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non-constructive and hostile policy of so-called dual containment against China
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and Russia this is such an important quote because what they're saying here is the US is trying to militarize not
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only Asia and Europe but really the entire world and by doing this the US is
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destabilizing entire regions threatening China and Russia's security and by doing
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this the US is pushing China and Russia further together deepening their
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cooperation I mean this is exactly what so many people have been saying for years the Western new cold war is
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actually deepening the partnership between the targets of Western aggression
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now also they mention the issue of outer space which is very important China and
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Russia say that they quote oppose attempts by individual countries to militarize outer space and here you can
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see they go back and forth this very diplomatic language they say individual countries they mean the United States
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the US is trying to militarize outer space instead China and Russia emphasize
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that they want to maintain World Peace that's a quot maintain world peace and
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in order to do soe both sides agree to promote the international initiative SL
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political commitment not to deploy weapons first in outer space on a global
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scale so they're saying look we will not deploy weapons to outer space first if
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the US does not do it first so as long as the US does not deploy weapons we will not deploy weapons continuing in
Climate change & pollution
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part eight China and Russia talk about climate change and they say both sides
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in response to climate change reaffirm their commitment to objectives principles and institutional framework
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of the United Nations framework convention on climate change and its Paris agreement so they're supporting
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multilateral climate change discussions and the Paris agreement and another very
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important point in this discussion of climate change is China and Russia quote
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emphasize the crucial importance of financial support from developed
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countries to developing countries so they're saying look the US historically
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has been the largest emitter of carbon the US is the largest contributor to
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climate change and the Western powers in general historically have been the largest contributors to climate change
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those rich countries owe a climate debt to the global South the rich countries
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should give resources to the poor countries to help them deal with climate
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change furthermore China and Russia say that they support working with all parties to develop legally binding
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documents to address environmental pollution caused by plastic waste this
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is important because the Paris agreement famously is not legally binding whereas
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China and Russia say that they support International legally binding documents
35:58
to stop pollution part nine of the statement talks about the Ukraine war and Russia
Ukraine war
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said that it welcomes China's willingness to play a constructive role in resolving the Ukraine crisis through
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political and diplomatic means both sides emphasize the need to Halt all
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actions that could prolong the conflict and further escalate tensions urging to
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prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control this is a clear reference to the
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Western Powers threatening to further militarize France has talked about potentially sending troops to Ukraine in
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fact France and the UK already have troops on the ground not a lot but there
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are some there the US also has Special Operations forces in Ukraine and CIA
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forces in Ukraine so China and Russia are saying look we do not want this conflict to continue to expand we do not
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want a full-on direct war with and they said quote dialogue is a
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constructive way to resolve the Ukraine crisis so they're calling for dialogue
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and they say both sides believe that to steadily address the Ukraine crisis it
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is necessary to eliminate its root causes which what are the root causes
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they must adhere to the principle of indivisible security and take into
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account the legitimate security interests and concerns of all countries what are they saying
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there NATO expansion China China's diplomats have often used this language
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what they mean is that Russia has legitimate security interests and the
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West has continued to ignore them in fact in late 2021 Russia demanded a series of
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security guarantees from the US NATO and the EU and what happened the West
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completely ignored all of them rejecting all of them and said Ukraine is going to
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join NATO which is an existential security threat to Russia when the
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Soviet Union was invaded in World War II it was invaded through Ukraine Ukraine
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was used as a base to try to cut off Southern Russia to divide Southern Russia from northern Russia to carve up
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Russia Russia knows that Ukraine if it joins NATO will be used in order to wage
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war on it NATO has already surrounded Russia with numerous members like in the
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Baltic states that are on Russian borders the West is now trying to cause a color revolution in Georgia blatantly
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intervening in Georgia's Internal Affairs trying to eventually push for Georgia to become part of NATO also on
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Russia's borders so China is saying look this war in Ukraine cannot end until the
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legitimate security needs of all countries are met that includes Ukraine it also includes Russia and finally part
Non-interference
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10 the last part of this very lengthy statement they call on relevant countries and organizations to stop
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adopting confrontational policies and interfering in the internal affairs of
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other countries they're referencing the US which medals in the internal affairs
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of basically every country all around the world funding organizations
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so-called NOS to try to organize color revolutions China and Russia oppose stirring up
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Regional tensions and advocating for Block confrontations they're saying look we don't want a new Cold War we don't
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want blocks but it's the Western Colonial powers that are opposing this
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through neocolonialism and hegemonism which is the language that China and Russia used early on in a
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statement here they mention NATO directly and China and Russia say that
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they oppose quote NATO's destructive intentions in the Asia Pacific region
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which they Note have a negative impact on Regional peace and stability they
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also Express serious concern about the consequences of the alus trilateral
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security partnership in various fields for the Strategic stability of the Asia Pacific region this again is the
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military pact between Australia the UK and the US the anglo-american Colonial
ASEAN
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Powers China and Russia also call to deepen cooperation with Assan that is
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the association of Southeast Asian Nations and continue to jointly promote the consolidation of asan's central
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position in the multilateral framework of the asia-pacific region they oppose
East Asia
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us attempts to change the balance of power in Northeast Asia by expanding its
40:53
military presence and cobbling together military groupings so here they're talking about the US attempt to create a
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military pact with South Korea and Japan aimed at China of course and Here China
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and Russia condemn the United States and they say quote the United States clings
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to Cold War thinking and the mode of block confrontation so again they're
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constantly reiterating we do not want a new Cold War it is the US that is
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pushing for a new cold war and they say quote the United States should cease
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such behavior and then they talk about the issue of North Korea officially
North Korea
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known as the dprk and I'm just going to read this because it's pretty important they say
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quote both sides oppose the US and its allies deterrent actions in the military
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field provoking confrontation with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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and aggravating tensions on on the Korean Peninsula that could lead to armed conflict both sides urged the
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United States to take take effective measures to ease military tensions and create favorable conditions abandon
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intimidation sanctions and suppression and promote negotiations among North
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Korea and other relevant countries on the principles of mutual respect and
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consideration of each other's security concerns both sides reaffirm that
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political and diplomatic means are the only way to resolve all issues on the
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Korean Peninsula continuing China and Russia address the issue of West Asia
West Asia (Middle East) & Palestine
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the so-called Middle East and especially Palestine they say quote both sides
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advocate for maintaining peace and stability in the Middle East and oppose interference in the internal affairs of
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regional countries and they express support for the creation of a Palestinian State and they say that they
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quote look forward to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with
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East Jerusalem as its capital this is what China and Russia have called for for many decades they're saying look the
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Palestinian people deserve a state they already recognize Palestine as a state and they're saying that in the United
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Nations Palestine should be recognized of course the United States has been opposing this the US US use its veto
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power in the security Council in order to prevent the UN from recognizing Palestine as a state and the vast
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majority of countries on Earth 143 out of the 193 member states in the UN
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General Assembly voted to recognize Palestine as a state it was only the
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United States and a few allies like Israel Hungary CIA and the new far-right
43:52
regime in Argentina just nine countries on Earth the US and it allies and puppets voted against recognizing
44:00
Palestine so on this issue China and Russia are going along with the global
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majority then they addressed the issue of Afghanistan and they emphasized that
Afghanistan
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the US and NATO as responsible parties for the aggressive occupation of
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Afghanistan for 20 years should not attempt to deploy military facilities in
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Afghanistan and its surrounding areas again and they also say that the US owes
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reparations to the people of Afghanistan they say quote they say that the US
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should quote bear the primary responsibility for the current economic and livelihood difficulties in
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Afghanistan assume the main expenses for reconstruction of Afghanistan and take
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all necessary measures to unfreeze Afghanistan's National Assets the US has
44:54
Frozen that is stolen the foreign exchange reserves of the Afghan Central
45:00
Bank which is causing a hyperinflation crisis in Afghanistan and there are
45:05
warnings that there could be famine as large numbers of civilians are starving
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because of the US and China and Russia are saying that they they oppose that and the US owes Afghanistan reparations
Africa
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and finally at the end of the statement China and Russia call for deepening
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their alliance with Africa they say that quote peace stability and true
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Independence are the basis for the development and prosperity of the African continent and they call for a
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good and healthy atmosphere of international cooperation with Africa
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making contribution to supporting African countries in solving African
45:47
problems in an African way so in this diplomatic language here China and
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Russia are saying that they oppose the Western Colonial Powers which continue to interfere in Africa's Internal
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Affairs especially France which still tries to maintain neocolonial control
46:05
over West Africa in particular and France still controls the currency used
46:11
by many countries in West Africa in the system that is known as the CFA Fran and
46:17
that used to be referred to as the colonial Fran they changed the names but this is a colonial system that France
46:23
still maintains today and finally at the end of the statement China and Russia
Latin America
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talk about their important strategic cooperation with Latin America and the
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Caribbean and they call for deepening their cooperation with numerous
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multilateral organizations within Latin America including the community of Latin
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American and Caribbean States the seoc and the southern common market mercosur
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and also the bolivarian alliance for the peoples of AR America Alba now these are
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very important Regional institutions what's also very important to recognize
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is they did not mention the organization of American states the OAS because that
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is essentially a US puppet organization that's why Cuba Venezuela and Nicaragua
47:16
are not members and other countries have expressed interest in leaving the OAS in protest because the US has used the OAS
47:24
to meddle in the internal affairs of countries in Latin America on the Caribbean and try to organize coups and
47:32
instead China and Russia recognized that the legitimate representative of Latin
47:37
America and the Caribbean is the seak in which the US is not a member and they
47:43
also in particular they emphasize medical Sur which is an economic
47:49
instrument for integration and Alba which is another economic instrument that was created by Cuba and Venezuela
47:56
as the most explicitly Anti-Imperialist revolutionary instrument of regional
48:01
integration in Latin America so here we can see that China and Russia are saying
48:08
that we want to be friends of Africa and Latin America supporting the global
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South in its call for a more multi-polar world so those were the main points of
Outro
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this very lengthy statement I have a link in the description below to the
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article at my website which includes an unofficial translation of the full text
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again full disclosure this is based on a machine translation it is not official
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but I think this is a very important historic document and the fact that it
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was not published in full in English everywhere inspired me to do this analysis today because you're not going
48:47
to understand what's going on if you just only read Western corporate media
48:53
and you never hear the perspective of China and Russia represented in mainstream Western
48:59
corporate media instead they portray Beijing and Moscow as these boogey men and they're evil but it's very important
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to hear what president X and President Putin were discussing in their own words
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not in the biased distorted perspective of the western corporate media and
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that's of course why I created geopolitical economy report I am Ben Norton the editor-in-chief and here at
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geopolitical economy report our goal is to help educate people on the increasingly multi-polar world and the
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role in particular of the global South the global majority countries who are ignored and whose perspectives are
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distorted by the Western corporate press I want to thank everyone for joining me today in this very lengthy analysis and