Beijing and Moscow are united as ever. With one voice, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping on Tuesday accused the United States of “undermining” global security by seeking to deploy missiles in several countries around the world to “maintain a unilateral military advantage”.
“Russia and China express concern over the intensification of United States activities aimed at creating a global missile defense system and deploying its elements in various regions of the world, combined with an increase in non-weapons capability. high-precision nuclear weapons,” Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping said in a joint statement signed on Tuesday after talks in the Kremlin.
United against NATO
The two heads of state also said they were “concerned” by NATO’s growing presence in Asia. “The (both) parties are very concerned about the growing strengthening of ties between NATO and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region on military and security issues,” said Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, accusing the Atlantic Alliance to “undermine regional peace and stability”.
Moscow and Beijing “are against the formation of exclusive closed blocs in the Asia-Pacific region”, they underlined, denouncing “the negative influence of the strategy of the United States guided by a Cold War mentality ( …) on peace and stability in this region”.