LOS ANGELES.–Russian President Vladimir Putin, 71, and 71-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping press their case at the Astana, Kazakhstan Shanghai Cooperation Organization for a new economic, military and strategic pact to counter growing U.S. meddling in the Eurasian region. Putin and Xi believe the Feb. 24, 2022 Ukraine War directly relates to 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s belligerent foreign policy toward Russia and China, doing the same thing to both countries. Putin rejects Biden’s claim that the Ukraine invasion was a naked, imperial land grab but rather a defense strategy to neutralize Biden deciding to arm Ukraine to the teeth on the Russia border, presenting a security threat to Moscow. Putin asked Biden for months before the invasion to discus new security arrangements for Ukraine. Biden refused and Putin decided to move the Russian army into Ukraine to neutralize the threat.
With Chinese President Xi Jinping at his side in Astana, Putin pushed for a new Eurasian cooperation coalition to resist attempts by the U.S. to meddle in Indo-European affairs, especially to form a NATO-like coalition in the Indo-Pacific to counter growing influence by China in the South China Sea. Once Biden hit Russia with crippling economic sanctions after the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion, he boycotted Russian oil and gas, forcing Putin to pivot away from Europe and to the Indo-Pacific zone.”SCO member should consolidated unity and jointly oppose external interference in the face of the real challenges of interference and division,” Xinhua News Agency quoted Xi say, warning about the West’s ‘Cold War Mentality’” Biden has been responsible for creating hostile relations between Russia and China, driving both countries in a close economic, military and strategic alliance.
Biden pretends that Putin and Xi are the aggressors, requiring the U.S. to confront growing influence by challenging Russia and China’s power in Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific region. Putin said he wants “a new architecture of cooperation, indivisible security and development in Eurasia designed to replace the outdated Euroceptic and Euro-Atlantic models, which gave unilateral advantages to certain state,” Putin said, referring to Biden’s foreign policy. Biden thought he could rally the world against Putin’s Ukraine invasion and instead has pushed China, Russia and other states into a close economic, military and political alliance against the U.S. China read clearly Biden’s aggressive foreign policy, trying to turning Beijing’s Indo-Asian allies into competitive rivals. Biden said in 2022 he would send U.S. troops into Taiwan to defend a Chinese invasion.
Biden rejected the idea of sending U.S. troops into Ukraine, even though he branded Putin the next Adolf Hitler, trying to seize more European territory. When it comes Taiwan, primarily because of Taiwan Semiconductor, the world’s largest chipmaker, Biden violated the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, signed into law by former President Jimmy Carter, recognizing only Beijing and ending the 1954 Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty. Biden’s foreign policy has wrecked decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control with Russia and Communist China. So, whatever agreement was reached at the Shanghai Cooperation Org. it comes a no surprise, since Biden pushed Russia and China into a close economic, military and strategic alliance. Putin and Xi blamed the West for meddling in Eastern Europe and the Pacific Rim, trying to undermine Russia and Chinese foreign policy.
Putin and Xi want the U.S. to stop its military presence in the Indo-Pacific, hoping enough nations join as new Eurasian Security Pact to counter U.S. influence. Russia has managed to circumvent the most crippling U.S. sanctions because of the Ukraine War by expanding markets in China, India and other Asian countries. After losing the European market, Putin has expanded his oil sales, only recently getting upgraded by world financial markets because of all the oil and gas sales, not to mention weapons sales to various Asian and African countries. Biden thought his crippling sanctions would persuade Putin to pull out of Ukraine, only making a bad situation worse. Putin now view the Ukraine conflict as a war between the U.S. and Moscow. Biden signed a 10-year security pact with Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Putin hopes the Shanghai Cooperation Org. can promote a multi-polar world where the U.S. and European Union monopolies can be broken and spread over many countries in Asia and Africa. “The multi-polar world has become a reality,” Putin said. “More and more countries support a fair world order and are ready to vigorously defend their legal rights and traditional values,” Putin said, expressing support to using currencies for transactions other than the U.S. dollar. Because of the Ukraine War, Biden has driven China and India to a close economic, military and strategic alliance. Biden wanted support for his proxy war against the Kremlin but didn’t get it from 73-year-old Indian President Nerenda Modi or China’s Xi Jinping. Both are now cooperating on resolving border disputes in Western India. Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine has backfired on U.S. foreign policy.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
