{"id":416351,"date":"2022-03-15T03:04:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T00:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/china-and-russia-forming-a-new-axis-to-challenge-the-west\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T03:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T00:04:51","slug":"china-and-russia-forming-a-new-axis-to-challenge-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-and-russia-forming-a-new-axis-to-challenge-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"#China and Russia forming a new axis to challenge the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e213b74fe0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e213b74fe0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/china-and-russia-forming-a-new-axis-to-challenge-the-west\/#%E2%80%9CChina_and_Russia_forming_a_new_axis_to_challenge_the_West%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;China and Russia forming a new axis to challenge the West&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CChina_and_Russia_forming_a_new_axis_to_challenge_the_West%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;China and Russia forming a new axis to challenge the West&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>For years, international-affairs watchers have scoffed at the idea that Beijing\u2019s and Moscow\u2019s interests would align so closely, or that they were scared enough of the United States and its allies, that they would become either formal or informal partners in crime.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the war in Ukraine, that day has arrived, and we should be worried about what that means for the New World Order.<\/p>\n<p>First, this won\u2019t exactly be an alliance. It\u2019s more like Moscow is set to become the biggest vassal state in modern history \u2014 the price Russian President Vladimir Putin will have to pay for his disastrous war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Putin needs China\u2019s cash, investments, military purchases, market for commodities and overall <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> support to survive in the months and years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, with trillions of dollars of economic sanctions about to come down on Putin\u2019s head, Russia as we know it today may simply cease to exist.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, China will be there \u2014 don\u2019t listen to any vague statements that seem to suggest Beijing is balking \u2014 to provide whatever support Putin needs over the long term.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/putin-xi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping could be forming an alliance amid the invasion of Ukraine.\" class=\"wp-image-21526834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/putin-xi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/putin-xi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/putin-xi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are forming an alliance amid the invasion of Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party looks at its new partnership with Russia, which will surely be a level of support in the tens of billions of dollars per year \u2014 if not more \u2014 as the greatest geopolitical victory it has ever secured.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens with the war in Ukraine, clearly, China will be the only victor.<br \/>For Beijing, the greatest threat to its regime, the idea that the US Navy and its allies could cut off China from natural resources coming from the Middle East in a war, has likely vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping will quickly move into Siberia and scoop up as much oil, natural gas and raw materials as he can get his hands on. China will no longer be dependent on the sea for survival \u2014 and that is huge.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Putin has reportedly asked Beijing for economic and military aid after being sanctioned for the invasion.\" class=\"wp-image-21526849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/vladimir-putin-16.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Putin has reportedly asked Beijing for economic and military aid after being sanctioned for the invasion.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Xi will also be able to transform China into a real military superpower, one that can compete and defeat the United States on the future battlefields of Asia. As no nation will likely buy Russian arms for years, Putin will drop any worries about selling such arms to Beijing. China could have access to Russia\u2019s most powerful hypersonic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, stealth submarine research, missile weaponry and much more.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the not-so-sexy but transformative stuff. China will surely want to get its hands on the millions of unused acres of land to farm and develop an alternative food source, again, so it will not have to depend on sources of food over sea routes the US Navy could block.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, as history shows, no alliance lasts forever, and a shotgun wedding between these two great powers \u2014 considering the terms China will demand \u2014 won\u2019t be easy for Russia to swallow.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"An alliance with Russia would greatly benefit Xi and China.\" class=\"wp-image-21526867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/xi-jinping.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>An alliance with Russia would greatly benefit Xi and China.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Sam McNeil<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over time, the Russian people \u2014 who will still feel the bite of sanctions \u2014 will surely grow to understand that China will soon become a sort of imperial overlord. Chinese merchants, traders and labor will come to Russia in droves, doing what they have done to countless African nations: trade Chinese cash to prop up an evil regime in exchange for the looting of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In some respects, the coming Chinese-Russian axis is perhaps the greatest political-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> experiment of all time. No nation has fallen so far, so fast, that it will need to be saved in such a manner. And knowing that China and Russia have been many times rivals in the past \u2014 they nearly went to war in 1969; so much for communist solidarity \u2014 such an arrangement may not last the test of time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Harry J. 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