The Chinese-Russian Alliance -- Birth
of a Superstate?
June 11, 2003
By Toby Westerman
Copyright 2003 International News Analysis Today
www.inatoday.com
The union of Russia and Communist China is beginning to attract attention from the world's press, but the full - and dangerous - implication of the alliance is not acknowledged.
The visit of Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao to
Russia prompted Fred Weir of the Canadian Press
to write from Moscow and analyze the relationship between
Russia and China. He recognized that Moscow and Beijing
are forging the "world's next economic, military, and
spacefaring superpower."
Weir interviewed several Russian authorities on Sino-Russian relations, and drew a compelling picture of the dynamics involved in the cooperation between Moscow and Beijing. The article, however, fails to alert the reader to the profound dangers to the Western world, which will arise as the new superpower takes shape.
The key to understanding the relationship between Russia and China is to realize that the alliance is not new, and it is political in nature.
Two basic facts are undeniable and demand the public's attention: "democratic" Russia supports Communist China's foreign policy, including Beijing's aggressive stand toward free Taiwan, and Moscow is the main supplier for Communist China's massive arms build-up, which has caused deep concern throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Sino-Russian ties have been close, long-term, and militarily oriented.
In August 1994, Radio Moscow (known today as the Voice of Russia) declared that "Russia will remain a major source of Chinese weapons," and was supplying Communist China with "tanks, air-born radar, and the training of Chinese military officers in Russian military academies."
Sixteen months later, in December 1995, Pavel Grachev, then-Russian Defense Minister, defined Russia as Communist China's "major partner" in the weapons trade, and that Moscow-Beijing cooperation was "an example of mutual trust and genuine friendship," according to a broadcast from the Voice of Russia World Service.
By April 1997, then-Presidents of Russia and China, Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin, declared their intentions to establish a "New World Order, " which would replace the purported American domination of world affairs.
No politician in "democratic" Russia has called into question Moscow's close ties with Communist China, just as Russia's close association with every overt communist state, including North Korea and Cuba, has been criticized.
The close cooperation between Russia and China is not new, and the world will tremble when the Moscow-Beijing superstate finally emerges clearly into worldview. The new superstate will be as powerful as it will be communist, with "democratic" Russia at its focal point.
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INA wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Cindy Furnare of News@TRUTHUSA.COM in developing this report.
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