Russian President Vladimir Putin set the tone for Sino-Russian relations, making it clear that he would not form a military alliance with China, but non-alignment does not mean that China and Russia do not cooperate.
In recent years, the Western bloc has frantically suppressed China and Russia, but it is difficult for the United States to achieve its strategic goals by relying on its own strength, so the United States is trying to restart the confrontation between China and Russia with NATO, which was established during the Cold War. Under the leadership of the United States, NATO has basically decided to regard China and Russia as "adversaries." Against this background, some people are worried about whether China and Russia will come together to form a similar military alliance because of NATO pressure? If such a thing really happens, it will be no different from the confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, and the whole world will once again be divided into two parts. But in the past two days, Putin's statement can be regarded as a reassuring pill for everyone.
On December 14, Putin publicly gave a clear answer to the question of whether China and Russia will form a military alliance. He claimed that the two countries would not form a military alliance and that cooperation between China and Russia would not be directed against third countries. This is equivalent to setting the tone for the future development of Sino-Russian relations, that is, to maintain long-term cooperation, but not alignment. Putin's statement will indeed dispel the doubts of some people who are worried about the occurrence of a new Cold War. And this is actually helping China solve its worries, and it seems that Putin understands what China means.
In principle, China has always adhered to an independent and non-aligned foreign policy. Even if China is now suppressed by the West, it does not mean that we will abandon the principle of "non-alignment".
And we are not in favor of a military alliance with the kind of structure of NATO. From a historical point of view, the essence of NATO is a tool used by the United States to seize hegemony. China, on the other hand, has always adhered to a strategy of peaceful development, and has no interest in traditional Western-style hegemony at all. China's development is not aimed at playing games with the United States, so there is no need for us to engage in military alliances.
In fact, in recent years, the United States has indeed led some Western countries to take action against China, but even so, we are still maintaining relatively close economic and trade cooperation relations with European and American countries.
This is also the biggest difference between the current era and the Cold War era, when the two camps had basically no official ties and no commercial exchanges. But in this era of globalization, even the United States is unlikely to exclude China from the global trading system.
Therefore, the rumor that "China and Russia will form a 'military alliance' and a new Cold War will begin" is not good for us. This will make more and more countries suspicious of working with China, and they will fear that if China and Russia "really form an alliance for a new Cold War", their business investment will be lost. Therefore, Russian President Putin's statement at this time really helped us solve this trouble. However, the fact that China and Russia are not aligned does not mean that China and Russia will not cooperate.
In fact, the current Sino-Russian relationship is closer than the traditional alliance relationship. As early as March this year, China and Russia issued a joint statement. In this statement, it was pointed out that Sino-Russian relations are not a military-political alliance similar to those of the Cold War, but transcend this model of state-to-state relations, and have the nature of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third countries, and there are broad prospects for all-round cooperation between the two countries. Cooperation here also includes cooperation at the military level.
It is important to know that military cooperation has always been a very sensitive area, and it is difficult to promote military cooperation if the two countries do not have enough strategic mutual trust, and China and Russia have enough strategic mutual trust.
As a result, we have seen that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his stance at the "Russia is Calling" forum on December 7 that Russia is willing to cooperate with China in various fields, including in the field of military technology. This is not the first time Putin has said this, as early as the end of 2021, Putin revealed at his annual press conference that China and Russia are jointly developing "high-tech weapons".
In early November this year, Putin also expressed his appreciation for the important high-tech cooperation between China and Russia. He believes that the high-tech field is the first priority of Sino-Russian military cooperation. All this news proves that the strategic mutual trust between the two countries has indeed reached a new height.
Therefore, the rumor that "China and Russia want to establish a 'military alliance'" has actually been self-defeating under Putin's statement. The cooperation between China and Russia has never been aimed at a third party, but for the purpose of protecting themselves, developing themselves, and maintaining world peace. What everyone should really worry about now is the military cooperation between the United States and its allies, such as the gradual revival of the NATO apparatus and the "Aukus Agreement" between the United States, Britain and Australia, which are actually the real threats to world peace.