Thread by @karolcummins

🌏CHINA RUSSIA ALLIANCE🌏

RU & China could be on the verge of reaching alliance conditions in the rapidly changing global situation characterized by growing tensions in their respective relations with the US..
orientalreview.org/2018/08/20/rus…

The writer argues that it is an intelligence blunder of historic proportions that the West is making by “dismissing the anti-western, anti-US alliance that is now forming between Moscow and Beijing.” Anderlini writes:

It was Peskov’s remark regarding China’s participation in the Vostok-2018 strategic drills that acquires salience. Peskov said, "This (China’s participation) speaks about the expansion of interaction of the two allies in all the spheres."

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In all these decades since the 1960s, it is impossible to recall a top Kremlin official characterizing RU & China as “two allies in all the spheres.” Officially, the Sino-RU relations are described as “comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination.”
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Their embrace & antipathy towards the US & the US-dominated global order as their rapidly growing common interests… Thanks to its continued rise and obvious ambition to supplant the US,
China is a far bigger long-term challenge for America than Russia.
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No less a figure than Henry Kissinger – the architect of that reconciliation with China in 1972 – has reportedly counselled Donald Trump to pursue a “reverse Nixon-China strategy” by seeking to befriend Moscow and isolate Beijing.
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📌China and Russia have been conducting highly sophisticated on-orbit activities that could enable them to maneuver their satellites into close proximity of ours, posing unprecedented new dangers to our space systems.
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📌In fact, the Trump adm has just announced plans to create a new Space Force as the sixth branch of its military to prepare for “the next battlefield” to counter Russia and China, which are “aggressively” working to develop antisatellite capabilities.
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As if on command Trump gleefully tweeted, “Space Force all the way!” And this comes soon after the announcement by Washington that it would impose extensive new sanctions against Moscow by August 22, including bans on a wide range of exports,
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📌The State Dept has further threatened another wave of sanctions in 3 months’ time, including a lowering of the diplomatic relations with RU.

📌Without doubt, within a month of the Helsinki summit, US-Russia relations are in free fall once again.
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Trump’s trade war could unite the countries he has targeted with his aggressive policies against Washington, creating a dangerous “axis of the sanctioned”, a political analyst said.

📌📌And/or provide cover for flow of backdoor 💰flow. #DAMAC #CSCEC?
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📌The hefty tariffs and sanctions imposed by the US in the past months on China, Turkey, Iran and Russia could prove to be a double-edged sword if they will bring together the affected nations in an alliance against America & the West
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📌”Taken individually, Iran, Turkey, Russia and even China are vulnerable to American pressure.
“But if these countries are pushed together, their mutual support and capacity to cause turmoil could make US measures counterproductive. 
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📌Moscow has strongly reacted. PM Dmitry Medvedev warned that tightening up of economic sanctions against Russia may be treated as a declaration of economic war, to which Russia will respond with all economic, political and other means possible.
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📌Beijing unveiled a list of US$16 billion worth of American goods it plans to hit with tariffs. This is response to Washington’s announcement the previous day that it would impose 25 per cent tariffs on an equivalent value of Chinese exports.
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The quasi-alliance between RU & China cannot be belittled as ‘geopolitical signaling’ anymore.

Just short of a formal military alliance, the 2 countries are intensifying their cooperation & coordination.

Moscow announced that Putin would be receive Yang.
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The attraction of China is only increasing in Moscow’s strategic calculus, thanks to China’s formidable economic firepower (w/its nominal GDP set to overtake the Eurozone’s by the end of this year) & China’s rapidly developing technological sophistication
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📌Of course, Moscow realizes that no significant improvement in the Russian-American relations can be expected either so long as Trump remains in power. ORLY?
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📌Even as many in the west dismiss or ignore the rapidly warming ties between the two countries, presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have gone to extravagant lengths to praise each other, in a budding bromance.
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📌Per Putin, Xi is the only foreign leader he has celebrated his birthday w/ over a glass of vodka and a plate of sausage. For his part, Xi recently called Putin his “best, most intimate friend” while presenting him w/China’s inaugural friendship medal.
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‼️ICYMI‼️

Exclusive: China Syndrome – Xi and Putin Partnered in U.S. Election Interference

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@threadreaderapp unroll please and Thank you.

Trump may have committed his biggest strategic blunder vis a vis China during his first full week in office, when, with a quick signature, he withdrew the United States from the TTP trade deal says top China expert C. Johnson.

📌Intentional quid pro quo
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