China Vows Cooperation With Russia Despite West's Sanctions
Source: Agence France-Presse
BEIJING - China vowed Sunday to plough ahead on economic and diplomatic cooperation with Russia despite Western sanctions against Moscow over the conflict in Ukraine, stressing their relations are based on "mutual need".
"The practical cooperation between China and Russia is based on mutual need, it seeks win-win results and has enormous internal impetus and room for expansion," said Beijing's foreign minister Wang Yi.
As well as sanctions, Vladimir Putin's Russia is facing a sharp decline in its ruble currency amid an economic crisis fuelled largely by plunging oil prices.
Both countries are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, where they have in the past jointly used their veto power against Western-backed moves such as in the civil war in Syria.
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)Thank god. I've had enough of American belligerence at home and abroad.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)strawberries
(498 posts)lovuian
(19,362 posts)The New World Order maybe headed up by Russia and China ....instead of the US
Demeter
(85,373 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)the two largest, fucked up totalitarian governments on planet Earth.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)countries will be included, i.e. Iran, Iraq?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Korea will be on board. Mugabe too.
They won't recruit every vile, authoritarian government--Saudi Arabia is with the US--but they can certainly grab a lot.
Of course, we'll still trade with them, so the posturing will only go so far.
I hope China enjoys a newly militarized Japan.