Today, the United States always relies on its great military power to force other countries to submit and obey the arrangements of the United States. Under such hegemonism, many countries have chosen to bow their heads and obey. But there are still some countries that choose to defend their national sovereignty, as is the case with China and Russia.
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Historically, the United States has repeatedly struck and suppressed Russia and China. Previously, after the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became the only superpowers in the world at that time.
China did not attract the attention of the United States at that time, and the United States focused all its attention on dealing with the Soviet Union. After decades of competition, the United States finally succeeded in bringing down the Soviet Union and allowing it to disintegrate.
However, after the collapse, Russia still inherited most of the legacy of the Soviet Union, and its huge territory and strong military power made the United States feel threatened again, and the United States still wants to continue to deal with Russia. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union this time, Russia is also a foreign power, and it is already a dying polar bear, and Putin, who has just come to power, still wants to actively establish relations with Western countries, and has repeatedly proposed to join NATO.
Although during the Soviet era, the Soviet Union was very comical in proposing to join NATO, and NATO naturally could not make such a joke with the Soviet Union and decisively refuse. After all, the purpose of the United States in establishing NATO was to deal with the Soviet Union, and now the Soviet Union is good, since it can't be defeated, then join it, NATO will not accept the Soviet Union, otherwise it will really become a big international joke.
But Putin is different, because when he first came to power, Russia was indeed suffering from internal and external troubles. The domestic economy is facing collapse, especially when Yeltsin was fooled by the West and engaged in a "shock therapy", which directly caused Russia's economy to plummet, and a large amount of state-owned assets flowed out, even if they were not acquired by foreign companies, they were also bought by domestic oligarchs, resulting in difficulties for the people at the bottom. Therefore, at this time, Putin had to choose to improve relations with Western countries in order to gain time for domestic economic development.
However, it is clear that Europe and the United States will not give Russia such time, not only rejecting Russia's application to join NATO, but also instigating Georgia, Ukraine and Russia to start a confrontation. It also puts Putin on a staunchly anti-American path.
Similarly, China has been subjected to-for-tat from the United States. The United States is annoyed that many of China's neighbors have become America's little brothers, and China has refused to give in, because Japan and South Korea are watching from the side, after all, its majesty has been challenged. And as China's own strength increases, the United States also fears that China will one day surpass itself. This is very difficult for the United States to accept, since the founding of the United States more than 200 years ago, the United States has been on a downhill slope, and finally became the world leader, how can it give up this position to others.
Moreover, China's current development speed is faster than that of the United States, and if China develops peacefully and steadily for several more decades, it should be no problem to surpass the United States. However, this is not good news for the United States, after all, after staying in the position of the world leader for a long time, it is definitely not used to being the second in the world, and the last time the United States was the second in the world was decades ago. Once China overtakes the United States, the rest of the world will certainly break away from the control of the United States and affect the global interests of the United States, which is unacceptable to the United States. So, now the United States will focus on dealing with China.
As for such an excessive behavior of the United States, Russia is also speaking out for China, and under the pressure of the United States step by step, Sanakoev, the head of Russia's Asia-Pacific affairs, said that China has its own means to make the United States sober up its arrogance.
And China also has its own countermeasures. And the reason why Russia spoke out is because China has provided Russia with a lot of trade aid, especially the deepening of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which makes the United States want to destroy Sino-Russian relations even more. Naturally, Russia will not get used to the United States and take the initiative to stand up and speak for China.