U.S. State Department Ned Price on Feb. 23 criticized China and Russia for seeking to create a new “profoundly illiberal” world order, with the current Russian aggression against Ukraine being a part of that. Price pointed to the two nations’ joint statement released earlier this month as evidence for their desire of achieving such a world order, during a regular news briefing.
“But this is an order that is and would be profoundly illiberal, an order that stands in contrast to the system that countries around the world … have built in the last seven decades,” he said. “It is an order that is in many ways destructive rather than additive.” Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to China’s capital Beijing on Feb. 4, the opening day of the 2022 Winter Olympics, to meet with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping. After their meeting, they released a lengthy statement, claiming that the …
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