The key question is, how will Russia–Iran–China
(RIC), as BRICS leaders, SCO members, and simultaneously top three “existential
threats” to the Hegemon, be able to start implementing a new global security
architecture without staring down the genocidals.
The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist
mindset, China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron
without bothering about an inevitable array of sanctions coming by early 2025
and/or a possible collapse of the international financial system.
Last week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his
list of delusional US demands was welcomed in Beijing by Foreign Minister Wang
Yi and President Xi Jinping as little more than an annoying gnat.
Wang, on the record, stressed that Tehran was justified in
defending itself against Israel’s shredding of the Vienna Convention when it
attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
At the
UN Security Council, China now openly questions not only the state terror
attack on the Nord Streams but also the US–Israel combo’s blocking of
Palestinian statehood. Moreover, Beijing, just like Moscow recently, hosts
Palestine’s political factions together in a conference aiming to unify their
positions.
Only two days before Moscow celebrates Victory Day, the end
of the Great Patriotic War, Xi will land in Belgrade to remind the whole world
about the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese embassy by the
US, UK, and NATO.
Russia, meanwhile, provided a platform for the UNRWA – the
UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, which Israel has sought to defund –
to explain to high representatives of BRICS-10 the cataclysmic humanitarian
situation in Gaza, as described by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe
Lazzarini.
In short, serious political business is already
being conducted outside of the corrupted UN system, as the United Nations
disintegrates into a corporate shell with the US dictating all terms as the
largest shareholder.
Russian Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev
met in St. Petersburg with his Chinese counterpart Chen Wenqing on
the sidelines of the 12th International Security
Summit, congregating over 100 nations, including
the security heads of BRICS-10 members Iran, India, Brazil, and
South Africa, as well as Iraq.
The key crossroads these past few days was the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense summit in Astana,
For the first time, the new Chinese Defense Minister, Dong
Jun, met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei
Shoigu, to emphasize their comprehensive strategic
partnership.
Dong, significantly, stressed the “dynamic”
nature of China–Russia military interaction, while Shoigu doubled
down, saying it “sets a model for interstate relations” based on mutual respect
and shared strategic interests.
Addressing the full SCO assembly, Shoigu
emphatically refuted the massive western propaganda drive about a Russian “threat”
to NATO.
Everybody
was at the SCO defense ministers’ meeting – including, at the same
table, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Belarus as an
observer. Minsk is eager to join the SCO.
The interlocking Russia–Iran–China strategic partnerships
were totally in sync. Apart from Dong meeting Shoigu, he also met Iranian
Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, who lavishly praised
Beijing’s condemnation of the Israeli terror air strike in Damascus.
What is
happening now between Beijing and Tehran is a replay of what started last year
between Moscow and Tehran, when a member of the Iranian delegation on a visit
to Russia remarked that both parties had agreed on a mutual, high-level
“anything you need” relationship.
In Astana, Dong’s support for Iran was unmistakable. Not
only did he invite Ashtiani to a security conference in Beijing, mirroring the
Iranian position, he also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the
delivery of humanitarian aid.
Shoigu, meeting with Ashtiani, provided extra context when
he recalled that “the joint fight against international terrorism in Syria is a
vivid example of our long-standing friendly relations.” The Russian defense
minister then delivered his clincher:
The current military-political situation and threats to our
states oblige us … to common approaches to building a just
world order based on equality for all participants in the international
community.
Establishing
a new global security order is right at the heart of BRICS-10 planning – on par
with the de-dollarization debate. All of this is anathema to the
collective west, which is incapable of understanding the multifaceted,
intertwined Russia, Iran, and China partnerships.
And the interaction goes on in person. Russian President
Vladimir Putin will be visiting Beijing later this month. On Gaza, the
Russia–Iran–China position is in complete sync: Israel is committing genocide.
For the EU – and NATOstan as a whole – this is not genocide: the bloc supports Israel
no matter what.
After Iran, on April 13, changed the game in West Asia for
good, without even using their finest hypersonic missiles,
the key question for the Global Majority is stark: in the end, who
will restrain the genocidals, and how? Diplomatic sources hint this will
be discussed face-to-face by Putin and Xi.
This
time, the barbarians are facing a 5,000-year continuing written civilization,
armed with Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Mao thought, Xi’s dual circulation strategy,
Belt and Road, BRICS, renminbi digitalization, Russia and China unlimited, the
world’s most powerful manufacturing industry, tech supremacy, economic
powerhouse, and the backing of the Global South.
US threats of a “clear choice” between ending several key
strands of the Russia–China strategic partnership or facing a
sanctions tsunami don’t cut it in Beijing. The same applies to Washington’s
wishful attempts at preventing BRICS members from ditching the US
dollar.
Yaroslav Lisovolik, founder of BRICS+ Analytics, dismisses
the Hegemon’s threats against BRICS as the road map toward an alternative
payment system is still in its infancy. As for Russia–China trade,
the non-dollar high-speed train has already left the station.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has made it
quite clear that Moscow and Beijing have nearly reached the point of
abandoning the US dollar in bilateral trade. And the outright
theft of Russian assets by the collective west is the ultimate red
line for BRICS – and all other nations watching with horror – as a whole, this
is definitely a “non-agreement capable” Empire, as Lavrov has been
emphasizing since late 2021.
Courtesy: Information Clearing House