Few days ago, in the inauguration of the Beijing Winter Olympics. China’s President Xi met Russia’s President Putin in an encounter that will be historic. According to the observers, the Olympic event gave the opportunity to a meeting with geopolitics implications.
After this historic meeting, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal posted a series of columns and stories about the new Russia-China Axis.
William A Galston, WSJ columnist, wrote an opinion column titled “The New Axis of Autocracy”.
As we know, autocracy is “a form of government in which a country is ruled by a person or group with total power” or “a country that is ruled by a person or group with total power” (Merriam-Webster).
In the February 4 meeting in Beijing between Vladimir Putin and President Xi makes it official that both autocrats are together to try to bend neighboring countries and end the freedom of their people.
About this new situation, Mr. Galston said “What Russia and China have in common now is more important than what has divided them in the past. They reject the postwar economic and political order that the U.S. and its allies created. They are revanchist powers determined to regain territories they believe were separated unjustly from their homelands. They endured extended periods of national humiliation, which they are replacing with assertive national pride. And they see democracy as a threat, both inside and outside their borders.”
This is my blog comment of “The New Axis of Autocracy”: “While the U.S. and Europe were sleeping in the old glories of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russia worked hard to rebuild its military power. Now, China is joining the Russians with the intention of working together in the oppression of the freedom of the neighbors and in the fight against the authentic democracies of the world.
SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, my own think tank.
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