American flags in Washington. Archival photoMOSCOW, 22 Aug. Moscow's rapprochement with Beijing could destroy Washington's plans to dominate the international order and «break» the United States, which will not be able to focus on two directions at the same time, writes the Chinese edition of the Global Times. The article emphasizes that the United States is trying to simultaneously compete with Russia and China in the Ukrainian and Asia-Pacific directions for fear of losing their own influence on the world stage. Tengjun Zhang, deputy department director at the China Institute of International Studies, is convinced that this strategy of the American authorities is explained by the internal decline of the country. «In the current situation, the rapprochement between Russia and China will affect the deployment of US resources in both directions and interfere with their efforts for global dominance. Washington's current capabilities will not allow it to focus on two countries at the same time,» Zhang said. He added that the US is not able to overcome fear of weakening their own positions in the world. Earlier, Xu Liang, an associate professor at Peking University, said that Washington's foreign policy is aimed at destabilizing the world in order to preserve its own hegemony. He compared the United States to «a sick person who desperately seeks a cure, hoping to regain his former health.» US «chess party» in Ukraine
