I am sorry to say, westerners, but your time is over. The Chinese millennium begins now.
>Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping on Friday said they would work together to push back against American hegemony, formalising a de-facto division of the world's three superpowers into competing blocs reminiscent of the Cold War.
>"The Chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the Russian Federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in Europe."
>“The Russian side reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, confirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan,” one paragraph reads.
>The statement then adds: "The Chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the Russian Federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in Europe. Crimea is also recognized as an integral part of Russia."
>Ukraine is not explicitly mentioned but the wording of that sentence - and a separate one demanding an end to Nato expansion - makes clear China backs the demands Russia has linked to the invasion that Western governments say it is threatening.
>Most alarmingly for the NATO members, the pact, nicknamed the Moscow-Beijing Axis, binds both nations to support militarily one another "in all conflicts, both defensive and offensive."
>Under the terms of the agreement, 300,000 Chinese troops will take part in massive exercises along the borders of Finland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states, ostensibly to deter NATO aggression, while the Russian Navy will commit to supporting the Chinese Navy in the Pacific through a new dual command structure.
>The agreement also supplies China with gas for 30 years.
telegraph.co.uk
