Thread by @BonicMichael

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development
[February 4, 2022]
en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5770

2/“The Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, hereinafter referred to as the sides, state as follows.
Today, the world is going through momentous changes, and humanity is entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation. It sees the development

3/"of such processes and phenomena as multipolarity, economic globalization, the advent of information society, cultural diversity, transformation of the global governance architecture and world order; there is increasing interrelation and interdependence between the States; a

4/"trend has emerged towards redistribution of power in the world; and the international community is showing a growing demand for the leadership aiming at peaceful and gradual development…
The sides call on all States to pursue well-being for all and, with these ends, to build

5/"dialogue and mutual trust, strengthen mutual understanding, champion such universal human values as peace, development, equality, justice, democracy and freedom, respect the rights of peoples to independently determine the development paths of their countries and the

6/"sovereignty and the security and development interests of States, to protect the United Nations-driven international architecture and the international law-based world order, seek genuine multipolarity with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a central and

7/"coordinating role, promote more democratic international relations, and ensure peace, stability and sustainable development across the world."
It's clear that China and Russia have set aside ideology in the pursuit of global stability based on cooperation thru multipolarity.

8/The US & the West however, w/ their heads perennially in a bygone Cold War mindset, perceive nothing but "Chinese global domination", the "victory of authoritarianism over democracy", being knocked out of first place & "existential threats" that are more imaginary than real.

9/In physics every force meets with resistance (a counterforce). Duality permeates nature. Sunrise, sunset. East, West. The ideological duality/polarity b/t the US/West and China-Russia isn't a zero-sum game. Ideologies can clash in war or learn how to coexist. We find our better

10/selves when we see through ideology to behold our common humanity amidst all our variegated differences in culture, history, language and ethnicity. Objectively speaking, a multipolar world benefits all peoples on Earth more than any unipolar hegemony. We learned that in WW2.

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