Posted on 08/18/2021 12:43:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Exchanging views on opposing the politicization of virus origins tracing and safeguarding history of World War II, the phone call between Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov covered major issues that concern the two countries and the world.
Wang said that Russia has participated in the joint statement along with other countries and also sent a separate letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), opposing the politicization of the COVID-19 origins tracing and questioning the WHO's plan for the second phase of origins studies put forward by the WHO Secretariat. This reflects the spirit of high-level strategic coordination between China and Russia, Wang said.
China and Russia are model strategic partners that have deep trust in each other. Any Western force trying to sow discord between the two are doomed to fail, Wang said.
"The high-level interaction is necessary and timely against the backdrop of the US and the West politicizing the origins tracing work and pressuring the WHO to attack China… China and Russia have responsibilities to oppose the tendency," Yang Jin, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
Wang and Lavrov also talked about the joint efforts in defending the truth of history, human dignity and achievements of World War II.
Russia's contributions in World War II related to its core interests, as the US and some forces in the EU are working to falsify or obliterating its role to portray the US as major force in victory. And China is firmly standing with Russia to defend the truth of history, Cui Heng, an assistant research fellow from the Center for Russian Studies of East China Normal University...
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The current high level of Russia-China relations has surpassed the military and political alliance during the Cold War, Lavrov said.
“Hey Wang, this places is restricted. Don’t let them know your Jewish.”
Ping!!!
Jeff Nyquist will have great analysis on the current situation soon.
That’s true. Before 1941, the USSR gave the Luftwaffe room to train and grow, and kept German supply channels open in the face of a British blockade. Toward the end of the war, USSR’s rape army savaged Germany’s women. Each time USSR was relating to its core interests.
Defending the truth of WW2, like the Katyn Forest Massacre or Operation Icebreaker.
And there ya go...
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