China and Russia pledge stronger ties

ABC Radio Australia ^ | 03/01/2006

[lizol]

China and Russia pledge stronger ties China

China's President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin have pledged to build stronger ties this year.

Xinhua new agency says the two leaders have reiterated plans to further develop bilateral relations by deepening cultural exchanges.

Xinhua reports that President Hu told his Russian counterpart the Chinese government attaches great importance to the 2006 celebration of the "Year of Russia" and promises to make it a "complete success."

Russia will mark the "Year of China" in 2007.

[Flavius]

dandy

[DoughtyOne]

The west has made a colossal mistake not cutting off China at the cash register. We are funding an axis that seeks to push the U.S. back in the Rabbit hole.

Is this really that hard a concept to comprehend?

[MARKUSPRIME]

Its called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Iran is a member as well. Interesting times.

[GSlob]

Serves them both right. It is difficult to imagine a couple who would more richly deserve one another. Truly, it is a marriage made in heaven.

[lizol]

Heaven?

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the mention of that organization.  This is what I found.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an intergovernmental international organization founded in Shanghai on 15 June 2001 by six countries: China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its member states cover an area of over 30 million km2, or about three fifths of Eurasia, with a population of 1.455 billion, about a quarter of the world's total. Its working languages are Chinese and Russian.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/int/sco.htm

A growing number of Western observers, however, fear that the SCO is less a cooperative arrangement and more a modern day “Warsaw Pact,” determined to reduce U.S. global influence and confront what is perceived as growing Western expansionism in Central Asia and the Middle East. The addition of India, Iran, Pakistan and Mongolia as “observers” to the SCO, coupled with the abrupt rejection of U.S. requests for observer status, raise important questions concerning the organization’s long-term strategic goals and vision. In short, is the SCO merely a union of independent member countries with mutual interests, or a military confederacy designed to eventually confront the U.S.?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19041

[MARKUSPRIME]

Yep its the new anti-nato alliance.Mostly anti-US though.

[GSlob]

Of course, heaven. Quos dei wult perdere, congregat, or something like this.

[DoughtyOne]

I don't see India as anti-US. It may actually turn out to be a moderator in the long term. It's also hard for me to see Pakistan and India as becoming allies against the west.

[wingsof liberty]

Maybe China can deepen its relationship with Russia by contaminating another river that flows into Russia with chemicals...drink up, fellas

[Petey139]

This is more of a Asian Union, Next they will include Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN and probably expand to the Carrabians, South America and then Africa. Which is all possible considering China huge influence. So it probably be the World against the US or Just The World Against the West.