Go to mediabankRussian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. File photoMOSCOW, 15 Sep. Close interaction between Moscow and Beijing threatens Washington's claims to leadership, writes former employee of the US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency Rebecca Koffler in an article for Fox News. She expressed this opinion against the backdrop of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Samarkand at the SCO summit. «If separately these countries, considered by the Pentagon as America's closest competitors, pose a huge threat to the United States, their alliance only increases this danger,» Koffler said. arena».
In China, they responded with a proverb to the claims of the West because of the alliance with RussiaKoffler also noted «a shift in the center of gravity in international trade and investment in Asia, which helps to strengthen the alliance between Moscow and Beijing.» The officer mentioned the successful conduct of transactions between countries in national currencies instead of euros and dollars. On Thursday in Samarkand, at the SCO summit, President Vladimir Putin held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Russian leader criticized the attempts of the West to create a unipolar world that is absolutely unacceptable for the vast majority of states on the planet. His Chinese counterpart noted that Beijing, together with Moscow, is ready to set an example of a responsible world power and put the world on a path of sustainable and positive development. Earlier, Russia's Permanent Representative to the SCO Secretariat, Natalya Stepkina, at a briefing on the eve of the summit in Samarkand, stressed that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO ) was created in order to cooperate and develop states, and not to be friends against someone, therefore it is incorrect to compare it with NATO. />»Poor Europeans». Borrell's «wisdom» about Russia ridiculed in China
