Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Thursday that Moscow and Beijing can together resist American 'hegemonism.'
Still, closer cooperation doesn't mean an imminent anti-Western alliance. The two nations are deeply attached to strategic autonomy, and have competing flagship projects.
Russia's grand plans for its Eurasian Economic Union, for example, clash with Beijing's mammoth transcontinental Belt and Road Initiative. Putin has tried to win more Russian influence over the BRI and perhaps even integrate it into the EEU. But Moscow and Beijing both know that only the latter has the wealth needed to make the dream a reality.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov failed to appear at a June 2020 BRI summit, with an ambassador going in his place, an incident some observers interpreted as a pointed signal of Russian discontent. Certain Russia-China bilateral security grievances also echo those of the Western world. In Russia, for example, security services have been resistant to Chinese technology and have faced Chinese espionage."We are convinced that as long as China and Russia, as two major countries, stand together shoulder to shoulder and deepen coordination hand in hand, the international order will not fall into disarray, justice in the world will not collapse, and hegemonism will not win," he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, on December 15, 2021.
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