Invented terminology. There is much talk about global north and south of late. God knows why. Most of Russia is north of most of the US. And Australia is being roped in as an anti-China party.
China will do what Dr. Xi (he has an international law PhD) decides is in China’s best interests. Given they are dependent on Russian oil, that will be what is in Russia’s best interests.
BTW, Dr. Putin also has a PhD with his dissertation researched and written in Mineral Economics.
Our media is complete filth.
He was a powerful leader in the government when he got his law degree, does that make him a lawyer, did he take the bar, what exactly is that degree?
“From 1998 to 2002, Xi studied Marxist theory and ideological education in Tsinghua University, graduating with a doctorate in law and ideology in 2002.”
There are questions about Putin’s doctorate.
“The Mystery of Vladimir Putin’s Dissertation”
Igor Danchenko and Clifford Gaddy, The Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Putin-Dissertation-Event-remarks-with-slides.pdf
Also—”Russian President Vladimir Putin has been far less receptive to repeated allegations that he was not the intellectual braintrust behind his 1997 dissertation, “Mineral and Raw Materials Resources and the Development Strategy for the Russian Economy.”
Accusations against Putin first surfaced in 2006, when an investigation by the Brookings Institution alleged he copied about 16 pages of his 200-page Ph.D. dissertation from other sources.
Twelve years later, the Russian strongman found himself defending against accusations that his dissertation had been ghostwritten. According to former Russian legislator Olga Litvinenko, Putin’s dissertation was written by her father, Vladimir Litvinenko, Putin’s academic advisor and the rector of Saint Petersburg Mining University.
Also helpful in “writing” Putin’s dissertation, says Litvinenko: a photocopy machine.
Employing the only cut-and-paste technology available in the late 1990s, she says her father helped Putin cheat by using scissors to snip paragraphs from various sources, glued them together and copied them to create new pages in his dissertation.”