People walk in front of Russian and Chinese flagsMOSCOW, Jan 21Russia and China are striving to fill the resulting political vacuum and are cooperating like never before, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said. Truss said during a speech at Lowy University in Australia. She added that according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, over the past 70 years, Russia and China have not had such close and strong relations as they do today. «/>An old tank, a new minister and cameras: what did Liz Truss want to show the Russian Federation? Russia and China are increasingly cooperating, trying to dominate the West and the Pacific region, conducting joint military exercises, as well as in the space industry — through closer interaction, — Truss noted. According to the head of the British Foreign Office, authoritarian regimes are now uniting, which is why «regimes like Belarus, North Korea and Myanmar find their closest allies in Moscow and Beijing.» Truss and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace arrived in Australia on January 20 to discuss cooperation within the framework of the AUKUS partnership, as well as issues of economics, security and technology. China has repeatedly stated that cooperation between the two countries in various fields is not directed against other states. Beijing noted that as long as Russia and China stand shoulder to shoulder, the world order will not turn into chaos, hegemonism will not be able to win. Moscow and Beijing have also repeatedly stated that no one will be able to drive a wedge between the two countries. Russia has repeatedly expressed concern about the state of affairs in the Asia-Pacific region due to the fact that the United States and its allies are introducing forms of interaction that are aimed at containing other countries, in particular China. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation also put the creation of the AUKUS partnership by the United States, Britain and Australia, which involves the transfer of nuclear submarines to Canberra, on a par with the destabilizing actions of Western countries in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, AUKUS could lead to the collapse of the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
