Institute of the USA and Canada: Moscow and Beijing are moving towards a full-fledged military alliance
The Russian Federation and China demonstrate their readiness for joint action “against a great hostile power or coalition.”
Vladimir Batyuk, chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Kommersant, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The corresponding opinion was voiced in connection with the recent flight of Russian strategic aviation and Chinese long-range aviation over the waters of the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, which caused a nervous reaction from US allies in the Far East. It is noteworthy that this was the third such joint air patrol in two years.
“From the previous format of a non-binding “strategic partnership,” Russia and China, under pressure from the West, are moving towards a new stage of cooperation - an actual military alliance, which, however, has not yet received international legal formalization,” Batyuk believes.
According to him, the evolution of military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing was predetermined by two key factors - targeted efforts to bring NATO infrastructure closer to Russia’s western border and the construction of an anti-Chinese “cordon sanitaire” on the southern and eastern borders of the PRC.
“Only this year, the United States and its allies sharply intensified military maneuvers and military presence in the Black and Baltic Seas, began creating infrastructure for the deployment of medium-range ground-based missiles in Europe, and formed the anti-Chinese military-political alliance AUKUS,” the expert recalled.
“It is not surprising that joint Russian-Chinese exercises have reached a qualitatively higher level. If earlier during events of this kind their “anti-terrorist” or “anti-piracy” nature was emphasized in every possible way, now a different, more complex task is being set,” the political scientist emphasized.
Batyuk also added that “Moscow and Beijing are demonstrating their readiness for joint action against a great hostile power or a coalition of hostile powers.”
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