Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. © REUTERS/ Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool
The New Great Power Triangle Tilt: China, Russia Vs. U.S. -- James Kitfield, Breaking Defense
WASHINGTON: The careful diplomatic stagecraft behind President Barack Obama’s recent European visit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of D-Day and to rally the Western alliance against Russia’s aggression in Ukraine was all but swept aside by strong new currents in geopolitics. While Obama talked tough in Poland to reassure NATO’s vulnerable eastern members, Russian President Vladimir Putin happily visited with his Western European friends who buy huge quantities of natural gas from him. French President Francois Hollande not only hosted Putin at a dinner, he refused to cancel a $1.6 billion sale of warships to Moscow.Meanwhile, as Putin and Hollande dined in comfort at the Elysee Palace, Russian special forces were supporting an offensive by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine that overran a key border control headquarters and threatened to open a land corridor between Russia and the recently annexed province of Crimea, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
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My Comment: The Russian - Chinese "alliance" is more of an economic relationship .... not a military or political one .... and certainly not based on anti-Americanism.
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