The US wants to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing as foreign Minister of the Russian Federation interpreted the proposal of the head of the state Department Mike Pompeo to create a “new Alliance of democratic countries” to counter Communist China. Russia pledged to further strengthen and expand cooperation with the Chinese side.
Washington is trying to embroil Moscow and Beijing, it should be including the proposal of the head of the US state Department Mike Pompeo to create a “new Alliance of democratic countries” to counter Communist China, said the Russian foreign Ministry.
According to the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, Pompeo appeal to Moscow to “make friends” against Beijing is an attempt to “drive a wedge” into Russian-Chinese partnership, RIA “Novosti”.
In this regard, the diplomat said that Russia will continue to strengthen and expand cooperation with the Chinese side, and stressed that Moscow considers this partnership as a guarantee of stability in the world.
“Triggered Washington’s tensions with Beijing, hurting not only the US and China, but also seriously complicates the international situation as a whole”, — said Zakharov.
His proposal to create an anti-China coalition Pompeo announced in his speech at the presidential library of Richard Nixon in the Californian city of Yorba Linda, adding that Russia needs to join it.
“I think there is such a possibility. This opportunity is born out of the relationship, the natural relationship between Russia and China,” said the American diplomat.
Pompeo added that his concern is the ease with which American media reprint Chinese propaganda.
“the media picks up these storylines and actually continue to spread the propaganda of the PRC”, — he stressed.
In addition, the head of the state Department denounced the press of the United States for the publication of the authors, “negative-minded towards the American way of life”.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov in response, noted that Moscow will never be friends against somebody.
“And everything, whether it’s integration or unification of the political, they are aimed at the development of relations of good neighborliness and mutual benefit”, — said the representative of the Kremlin.
In June, the newspaper The Wall Street Journal published an expert opinion of the staff of the Center for strategic and international studies in Washington — Jude Blanchette and Seth Jones. They believe that America is losing the information war China. This is especially noticeable on the background of the coronavirus pandemic, they added.
The Ministry of foreign Affairs people’s Republic of China, July 24 said that the deterioration of relations between the US and China responsible Washington.
“the Current situation in Sino-American relations is not�� that China wants to see,” said in Beijing.
China also urged the United States to make efforts to return bilateral relations to normal.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi said earlier to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that the US in its policy to openly pursue their own interests, exhibit extreme selfishness, one-sidedness and intimidate other countries.
“the United States restored the notorious “McCarthyism” and outdated “cold war mentality” in its policy toward China, deliberately provoking ideological opposition and “punching the bottom” in its attitude to international law”, — he stressed.
Earlier, the head of the White house Donald trump has signed a law introducing against China sanctions because of “the destruction of freedoms in Hong Kong”. According to the American leader, this is a “new powerful weapon” that will help to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Hong Kong crisis.
For trump’s anti-China issue has become a Central theme around which he builds his campaign. Pandemic coronavirus ruined his plans to listing all your achievements in the field of Economics, and head of the White house passed to the search engine of an external enemy on which to blame the crisis, at the same time demonstrating to voters that the enemy is held responsible.
In this direction the American leader really is moving consistently. On 16 July he signed a law on sanctions against Beijing in connection with the situation in Hong Kong, as well as the Executive decree on the abolition of economic and trade preferences for the Special administrative region of China. In announcing his decision, trump said he believes China is responsible for the pandemic coronavirus.
“They could stop her,” said the American leader and moved on to another topic — what if the elections will win in the US Joe Biden, it will be the “gift of the Communist party of China”.
