Posted on 07/01/2005 9:08:12 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia and China warned other nations Friday against attempts to dominate global affairs and interfere in the domestic issues of sovereign nations in what appeared to be a veiled expression of their irritation with U.S. policy.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao signed a joint declaration after two days of talks calling for a stronger United Nations role in global affairs and opposing attempts "to impose models of social and political development from outside."
The two leaders also urged other states to renounce "striving for monopoly and domination in international affairs and attempts to divide nations into leaders and those being led."
While the declaration did not identify any specific country, it echoed similar veiled hints by Moscow and Beijing about U.S. policy in global affairs.
After decades of rivalry, Moscow and Beijing have developed what they call a strategic partnership since the 1991 Soviet collapse, pledging their adherence to a "multipolar world," a term that refers to their opposition to U.S. domination.
China and Russia share a concern about increased U.S. influence in Central Asia since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, which led to American troop deployments in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for operations in neighboring Afghanistan.
While Russia remains a U.S. ally in fighting terror, relations often have been strained by U.S. concerns about backtracking on democracy under Putin and Moscow's worries about what it sees as U.S. meddling in ex-Soviet republics. Russia also bristles at western calls for peace talks with rebels in Chechnya.
Beijing is unhappy about U.S. ties with Taiwan. Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its territory and says the island has no right to conduct foreign relations.
"We reinforced our mutual support on key issues like Taiwan and Chechnya which concern our vital interests," Hu said after the talks.
The two leaders gave an upbeat assessment on Russian-Chinese relations, which have flourished in recent years and were cemented in a border treaty ratified this year.
"We have set a solid foundation for friendship, trust and cooperation for Russia and China for a long time to come," Putin said Friday.
Moscow and Beijing dominate the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional security grouping that also includes the ex-Soviet Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, facing Western criticism for his government's bloody suppression of a May uprising, has found staunch support in Moscow and Beijing.
After their meetings in Moscow, Putin and Hu were due to meet again Tuesday at the SCO summit in Kazakhstan.
"We are increasing coordination and cooperation on important regional and international issues, such as guaranteeing stability in Central Asia, the SCO, reform of the United Nations and the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula," Hu said.
The Russian and Chinese militaries are due to hold their first joint maneuvers later this year - which some observers have seen as Russia's response to cooling relations with the U.S. and other Western nations.
China has purchased billions of dollars worth of fighters, missiles, submarines and destroyers after the Soviet collapse, becoming the main customer for struggling Russian defense industries.
Now it is eager to tap into Russian oil and gas to fuel its booming economy, and has lobbied hard for priority access over Japan to an oil pipeline carrying Siberian crude to Asian markets.
Russian-Chinese trade amounted to about $20 billion last year, and Hu told the ITAR-Tass news agency that it could reach between $60 billion and $80 billion by 2010.
President Hu Jintao seen at a signing ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, July 1, 2005. The presidents of Russia and China warned other nations on Friday against attempts to dominate global affairs and interfere in the domestic issues of sovereign nations in what appeared to be a veiled expression of their irritation with U.S. policy. (AP Photo/Alexander Nemenov, Pool)
Ahhh, times sure have changed since your stanky Sputnik, eh Boris? And how's that whole People's Revolution working out these days Chin?
Bite me.
Russia and China relations = The alliance of dictatorship
Two commies...
Wow, what huge brass testes.
Let's check with the Chechens, Tibetans, and Taiwanese how they feel about their peaceful neighbors.
And last I checked, most everything I own was manufactured in China. S'funny they'd be concerned about a country seeking domination.
Sure knows how to thank us for the SuperBowl ring, doesnt he?
They want to use the UN as a shield to protect their evil deeds. They're no different than third world dictatorships, except they are bigger and a lot more powerful. One more reason for us to pressure our political leadership to "GET US OUT!" of the United Nations.
penus envy
This is classic Axis rhetoric. "The Shanghai Cooperation Org" will be words that are spit out with venom, 100 years from now.
Not satisfied that Davos is moving fast enough to regulate the world the New Democrat Third Way "progressive" Clintons are starting their own Davos world.
"The William J. Clinton Foundation in Little Rock, Arkansas, has announced a new effort to harness the resources of global corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and governments to take on some of the world's biggest problems."
The world's biggest problem. That'd likely be us.
Bill Clinton and other New Democrat Third Way progressives get their biggest cheers and standing ovations at Davos when they trash America, they want to hear those cheers coming from the MSM and assorted America-is-the-problem folks here at home.
Relax Russia and China, help is on the way.
(Don't worry, "free traders." You just keep free tradin' that technology, wealth, and production to the developing nations. It's needed to raise their [gun] boats. You are not part of the world's problem -- yet. Hee. Hee. Got rope?)
"Yet." How very true.
Note this earlier thread.
These words come awfully close to a threat as well as mutual defense pact. I was pooh poohed when I suggest that a Taiwanese conflict could spread beyond the South China Sea, and that it would be one of the most dangerous conflicts to the human race. Just look at the actors;China, Russia, US, Japan, Australia and other actors on either side of the conflict.
I saw this on TV this morning and this is serious. Rhetoric yes, but there is more to it than that. This is a shot across our bow and its being done very publically. This will help to solidify relation with various countries, encourage others to come on over, begin the more public aspects of arming and troop movements. They're about ready. And they are flaunting it all in our face just to see where we really stand by our reaction, and its way to quiet on our end. We have failed another test by the look of things. With there going to be a supreme court nominee in congress now and the circus that will surely shape up in the media, I am left wondering if those two won't turn up the heat in North Korea or the Middle East or even China makes a run for the Straight of Malacca and/or Taiwan. I am now expecting things to move very fast from here on out.
Please note that all 3 of them are physically short fellows........Dr. Freud says it's all compensation.
Well said.
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