There was such a sabotage idea, borrowed in the 90s by colleagues in Russia from the worst part of Western journalism: to feed the audience only with what directly concerns one’s country, they say, the rest of the world does not matter. In full agreement with this approach, some of our media tried to present yesterday’s event as Vladimir Putin’s visit to China — and nothing more. But in fact, the event turned out to be much larger in scale, because a lot happened in Beijing at once — yes, including the visit of the Russian president, which happened at the right time and in the right place. But it all started with an invitation to him to a powerful international forum to further promote the Chinese Belt and Road project. And the forum sounded unexpectedly loud.
Let's see how this situation was assessed by our Western colleagues, but among the smart ones. The New York Times: “With Putin side by side, Xi outlined his vision of a new world order.” Die, there's no better way to say it. From the text: Xi Jinping «used a conference of leaders of mostly developing countries to pitch his ambitions to change the world order as the world faces war in Ukraine and the crisis in Gaza. He portrayed his country as an alternative to US leadership. And he gave an important role to the president Russia to Vladimir Putin, emphasizing how important their relationship is for their vision of the world.»
Everything is accurate. This is exactly what happened in Beijing — all together. Adjusted for the fact that the forum brought together not just a group of “developing” ones, but 150 delegations, mostly from those who are called the world majority and the Global South.
Let's continue our quoting. The Washington Post: The leaders of Russia and China saw the forum as “an opportunity to demonstrate their partnership against the United States and other Western countries at a time of global upheaval.” This is a good opportunity for our president to “show himself as a leader with powerful friends.” And these friends, we add, are far from just China — just look at the bilateral meetings held by the Russian president, who at the same time received invitations to visit two Asian states.
Finally, a commentary from the Hong Kong South China Morning Post by a Pakistani writer from New York. Headline: «Global South sympathetic to Palestinians sides with China as US seeks support for Israel.» And good thoughts from the text: “Experts say these divergent positions will further isolate the West on the world stage. <…> A politically dysfunctional and divided Washington will likely have a hard time countering the growing prestige of Moscow and Beijing.” 
All of the above has happened over the past two days in the Chinese capital. And on the one hand, it was an accident that it was the weekend before that famous events began in Israel and in its neighborhood, which so clearly highlighted that the Global South (and not just Muslim countries) was even more at odds with the West. But on the other hand, the Almighty loves to help those who help themselves. Alone, the voices of that same world majority would sound scattered and barely audible. And here the contrast of positions with the West (more precisely, the growing isolation of the West) revealed itself unusually clearly and clearly: while the world majority is busy with its own affairs in Beijing, Westerners, out of a long-standing habit, are frantically trying to support one side of the Middle East conflict. This effect would not have happened if there had not been a forum in Beijing.
But, as we see, there was a forum, and the reason for its holding was the growing economic, ideological and political integration of that same majority. In this case, integration around the Chinese Belt and Road project, that is, the creation of a fundamentally new system of the world economy, a system that has already been built in large strokes. The organizers of the forum used it to, in fact, announce the transition to smaller, but more numerous strokes and the sharpening of this system. In particular, this is what Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening of the forum boils down to. But it’s difficult for the West to notice such subtleties — there’s no time for it, too much is collapsing at the same time.