BEIJING, September 17. /TASS/. Russia and China have the opportunity to jointly create the foundation for a more equitable world order, Sergey Karaganov, the honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (CFDP), told TASS.
"If Russia and China stand together, and especially if India joins us, our countries will become the foundation for a future, relatively peaceful, and more equitable world order," he said at the 12th Xiangshan Forum on international security held in Beijing.
According to the expert, Sino-Russian cooperation in the field of security, including military-to-military interaction, "is developing strongly." "De facto allied relations triple Russia’s aggregate power and double China’s. This is not a case of a simple ‘one-plus-one’, together we make ‘six plus eight,’" he emphasized. "Therefore, it is necessary to deepen relations, to be extremely careful so that they are preserved and strengthened between the elites and the youth of both countries. Most importantly, we need a shared vision and an understanding of where the world should move."
Karaganov noted that Russia and China still face an "acute period" ahead, during which they will have to overcome the "residual resistance of the West, its last fierce pushback." He expressed confidence that, despite this confrontation and the expected "enormous number of problems," Moscow and Beijing will successfully form the foundation for a new type of multilateral international cooperation, particularly because Russian and Chinese cultures are inherently oriented toward mutual interaction based on respect for other countries.
