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China and Russia up-hold vision to shape the world

by Uganda Times

China’s President Xi Jinping and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin left Moscow with their sights set on shaping a new world order. Xi showed solidarity with Putin against the West, but he made no direct support for Putin’s war in Ukraine during his two-day visit.

Putin praised Xi for a peace plan he proposed last month and blamed Kyiv and the West for rejecting it, while the West sees China’s peace plan as a ploy to buy Putin time to regroup his forces and solidify his grip on occupied land.

China’s 12-point plan has no specific details on how to end the bloody year-long war. The United States intends to speed up the delivery of 31 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine in the autumn. Meanwhile, bursts of incoming and outgoing artillery fire could be heard in the town of Chasiv Yar just west of Bakhmut, a small eastern city that has been the focus of intense fighting for months.

Xi and Putin referred to each other as dear friends, promised economic cooperation, and described their countries’ relations as the best they have ever been.

In an earlier joint statement, the leaders accused the West of undermining global stability and NATO of barging into the Asia-Pacific region, but they asserted that the close partnership between China and Russia did not constitute a “military-political alliance”.

Putin said that they were working in solidarity on the formation of a more just and democratic multipolar world order, which should be based on the central role of the UN, its Security Council, international law, and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. Overnight while Xi was in Moscow, Russian forces launched a “massive air strike,” firing 21 Shahed-136 drones.

Air raid sirens blared across the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and in Ukraine’s north and east with reports of drone attacks, but there was no major destruction.

The West seeks to isolate Russia through global sanctions, and Putin faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

China has not supported any of the moves, and the West is concerned that it may help arm Russia in its conflict, which Beijing has denied. As Xi and Putin ended their talks on Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund announced a preliminary agreement with Kyiv on a four-year loan package of about $15.6 billion.

In Russian-held Crimea, the administration in Sevastopol said it had suspended ferry routes around the port city, shortly after its governor said a Ukrainian drone attack had been repelled by air defences.

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