Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday denied a possible military alliance with China in the war in Ukraine, guaranteeing that his relations with Beijing on the matter will be limited to general cooperation.
Vladimir Putin clarified rumors pointing to a possible military connection between the two countries regarding the war in Ukraine following the visit to Moscow of his counterpart from China, Xi Jinping.
“We maintain a relationship in terms of technical-military cooperation, we do not hide it, but it is transparent, there is nothing secret,” the Russian president assured in an interview with Rossiya 24 collected by TASS and Interfax agencies.
Putin further insisted that what Russia has with China “is not a military alliance. It is absolutely false.”
On the other hand, he accused the United States of carrying out a plan to “globalize” its alliances, in an international coalition outside NATO against Russian interests, in the style of the Axis powers during World War II, in relation to Hitler’s German Empire, Italy and Japan.
“What is the United States doing? It is creating more and more new alliances, which gives Western analysts and Western politicians reasons to say that the West is building new ‘axes’,” he added in an interview.
The President of Russia recalled that in 2022 NATO agreed on a new strategic concept for the development of the bloc “which directly writes that NATO will develop relations with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, with countries such as New Zealand, Australia and South Korea”.
“In this document they declare their intention to create a ‘global NATO’. What do we call it?” he concluded.
Source: DN
