Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently responded to a Russian-Chinese military alliance on a Russian media program, saying that Russia and the Chinese Communist Party do not need a military alliance like NATO, and that Russian-Chinese relations are a completely different kind of relationship. Russia and China have no plans to synchronize their responses to foreign “sanctions” against Russia and China.
RIA Novosti reported that Lavrov said on Russia’s Channel One’s “The Big Game” that there is often speculation that Russia and China may conclude a military alliance. But first of all, in a document of the Russian high command, it was emphasized that the Russian-Chinese relations are not a military alliance, and we will not pursue this goal. Taking NATO as an example, we see that this is a military alliance as it is traditionally understood, but we do not need such an alliance.
Lavrov stressed that such an alliance as NATO is a Cold War alliance. I am now thinking that modern times should form a multipolar world, and in this sense, our relationship with the Communist Party of China is a completely different relationship, not a traditional military alliance.
Lavrov also revealed that the Russian-Chinese strategic agreement will be extended. “Now we are preparing a document that will be signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and mainland President Xi Jinping to mark the 20th anniversary of the Russia-China Treaty on Good Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation.” He said the document spells out a code of conduct for Russia and China. Russia and China also have no plans to synchronize their responses to foreign sanctions against both sides.
Responding to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s $4.68 billion budget request for 2020 to deploy land-based medium-range missile systems in the first island chain and anti-missile systems in the second island chain, Lavrov said the U.S. deploys missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region without pretending they are aimed at North Korea. This is a global project aimed at containing Russia and the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating the U.S. in a completely dominant position in military strategy and the nuclear sphere.
The Russia-China Treaty on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation was signed by Putin and former mainland leader Jiang Zemin on July 16, 2001, and ratified on February 28, 2002, and provides for an automatic five-year extension. After a meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guilin, Guangxi Province on March 22, this year, China and Russia agreed on the automatic extension of the Russian-Chinese Treaty on Good-Neighborly Relations and Cooperation for a new five-year period.
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