Putin's intensive foreign visits, the West's high-intensity rumor-mongering, and China and Russia will not stop? The details of the Russian-North Korean agreement have been made clear, and the Western media do not need to be so "concerned about China". China, Russia and North Korea have joined forces to smash US hegemony, and behind the frequent hype is fear!
The West has intensively spread rumors about Putin's foreign visit, which has had a bad impact on China
After Russian President Vladimir Putin's official visit to North Korea on June 19, local time, there was a sudden surge of arguments that the escalation of Russian-North Korean relations could affect China-Russia or China-North Korea relations, and a group of U.S. officials and analysts seemed to want to send a signal that Putin's foreign visit would only bring trouble to China.
When attending a Senate hearing on June 23, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Brown publicly stated that the "mutual defense agreement" signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea may create friction with China, because China has long been the so-called "main ally" of North Korea, and if others promote relations with North Korea, there is a possibility of friction with China.
He also claimed that the treaty between Russia and North Korea would reduce China's influence over its two neighbors, while he also suspected that the agreement had limitations and would not help Russia and North Korea gain the ability to confront the United States.
The New York Times quoted Sun Yun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., as saying that the "mutual defense treaty" between Russia and North Korea seems to have deepened the image of the "trilateral axis" between China, Russia and North Korea, and China has always tried its best to avoid this image and "reserve room for choice" for itself.
The report also argues that the United States, Japan and South Korea may now see the threat posed by the Russia-North Korea defense treaty as requiring them to bolster or strengthen their defense capabilities around China in order to strengthen the trilateral alliance process that began last year, which will put more pressure on China.
Russell, a foreign and security analyst at the Asia Society Policy Institute, described Putin's trip to North Korea as "a drama by North Korea to provoke confrontation between major powers," arguing that North Korea is deliberately creating a competitor to exert regional influence in order to force China and Russia to invest more in North Korea and compete with each other.
In addition to touting the damage that Putin's visit to North Korea has brought to Sino-Russian relations, these Western media have also described Putin's trip to Vietnam as a trip of destruction, with another article in the New York Times on June 24 arguing that Vietnam is becoming increasingly important to China and the United States at a time when they are vying for influence, and that several agreements signed by Putin and Vietnam are provocations to China and the United States that will destabilize the regional situation.
This series of arguments is clearly a deliberate drive to drive a wedge between China and Russia, portraying Russia as a deliberately confrontational image with China, and if we look closely, we can see that there are obvious loopholes in it.
The Russian-DPRK agreement has long left room for hype, and it is useless for the West to hype up
First of all, this series of arguments about the impact of Putin's foreign visit on Sino-Russian relations all set the premise of China-Russia or China-North Korea relations as "allies". However, despite its military alliance agreement with the DPRK, China is still a country that pursues the principle of independent diplomacy, and its bilateral relations with one country are not directed at any third party, nor does it interfere in the normal diplomacy of other countries.
From China's standpoint, no matter what kind of diplomatic relations develop between Russia and the DPRK, China will not directly interfere in it, and the argument that the elevation of bilateral relations between Russia and the DPRK will lead to confrontation between China and Russia is a completely fabricated rumor without understanding China's diplomatic principles.
Second, some US politicians and media have also misinterpreted some of the bilateral agreements signed between Russia and the DPRK, such as the "Russia-DPRK mutual defense agreement" mentioned by US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Brown, which actually refers to the "Comprehensive Partnership Treaty" signed between Russia and the DPRK, in which Russia and the DPRK promise that if one of them is invaded by another country, the other side will need to help.
This is clearly not a true treaty of cooperation, it does not explicitly stipulate military obligations, and the description is very vague, and the "help" mentioned in this document is likely to refer to military assistance in the current situation. For example, the mutual defense treaties signed by the United States with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and other countries clearly stipulate that when one side is invaded, the other side needs to send troops to assist.
Under these circumstances, it is completely inappropriate to define the relationship between Russia and the DPRK as an ally and forcibly involve China's interests, because China does have friendly trade exchanges with these two neighboring countries, and at the same time hopes to maintain regional stability and oppose military alliances, but the agreement between Russia and the DPRK this time is only to strengthen the ability of each other to resist hegemony, and has not substantially affected the bilateral relations with China.
Finally, there are also very obvious rumors that China wants to leave room for itself, to mediate between Russia and the West, or to exert its influence on a neighboring country alone, and not allow other countries to get involved. Over the past few decades, China has always advocated regional cooperation and common development, and has never regarded a country as its own ban, forbade other countries to develop relations with it, and has never directly interfered in other countries' internal affairs in order to leave room for maneuver in politics.
In particular, as for Vietnam's status, in the analysis of some Western media, with a very strong hegemonic color, Vietnam is regarded as the object of the struggle for hegemony between China and the United States, but in reality, Vietnam is only one of China's many partners, and there has never been any special relationship between the two countries, and Russia and Vietnam have only continued bilateral cooperation in the past to a large extent, and only the United States has been wooing Vietnam unilaterally.
All in all, the arguments that Putin's visit has caused trouble to China are nothing more than nonsense, and the fundamental reason why the West wants to concentrate on rumors is that it is afraid that China, Russia and North Korea will really join forces.
China, Russia and the DPRK have joined hands to smash hegemony, and the United States is sitting on pins and needles
For the West, the formation of a new anti-hegemonic group between Russia and China and North Korea is an absolutely terrifying event.
First of all, Russia itself has a very strong strength, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has been fought for two years and four months, during this time, Western countries led by the United States have imposed all-round sanctions on Russia and provided a large amount of military aid to Ukraine, but the Russian economy has not only not collapsed, but has become stronger and stronger, and Ukraine is facing disadvantages on the battlefield and has not been able to recover the situation. It can be said that Russia alone is enough to give the West a headache.
Under the strong pressure of the United States for many years, the DPRK has resisted the pressure from the West with a posture of "not crushing or chewing it," so that the situation on the peninsula has constantly contained more US military forces, especially after the trilateral military alliance between the United States, Japan, and the ROK began to take shape last year, and the ROK has been striving to expand US military protection and has asked the United States to directly provide a nuclear umbrella.
These two countries have greatly distracted the attention of the United States, making it impossible for the United States to concentrate its efforts on containing China, which it considers its main adversary.
If, under such circumstances, a more stable anti-hegemonic community is formed among the three countries and forces are united in a back-to-back posture to jointly resist hegemony, the United States will completely lose the possibility of maintaining its hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region.
That's why some U.S. officials and media are so eager to spread rumors, drive a wedge between China, Russia and North Korea, and try to create contradictions between the three countries to prevent them from really coming together.
In the future, driven by common interests, the bilateral relations between China and Russia will continue to rise step by step, the friendly cooperation between China and the DPRK will not cease, hegemonism will eventually become a thing of the past, and the era of true multilateralism is about to come.