Sergei Lavrov - Russia's Role in the Global Realignment and the End of Pax Americana

With those of us who live in the West being exposed to a steady diet of anti-Russian narratives by our mainstream media over the past year and a half, sometimes it pays to go directly to the source of information about how Russia views the West and the global reality.  A recent interview with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, one of the world's leading and most intellectually capable diplomats that appeared in Indonesia's Kompas newspaper, explains how Russia's leadership views a "new Cold War".

 

Here is the question posed by the Kompas journalist:

 

"How is Russia going to push for achieving a new balance in international politics and what path is it going to take? A new Cold War is believed to be ongoing. What are its ramifications for the political economy of the world? What policy is Russia pursuing in the new cold war?

  

Here is Lavrov's response with my bolds throughout:

  

"We do not define the current phase of international relations as a new Cold War. The issue at hand is different and is about something different, namely, the formation of a multipolar international order. This is an objective process. Everyone can see that new globally meaningful decision-making centres are strengthening their positions in Eurasia, the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. These countries and their associations promote values such as national interests, independence, sovereignty, cultural and civilisational identity and international cooperation. In other words, they are fully within the global development trend and are, as a result, going from success to success."

 

As the thinkers among us have observed, there is a new multipolar global reality developing with the United States no longer functioning as the world's sole "police force".  Other nations and other organizations (i.e. BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization) are now taking their place of leadership at the global table, becoming ever more important when it comes to the future of geopolitics.

  

Lavrov continues, focusing on the United States and its new role in the world:

 

"With regard to the US-led collective West, these countries are trying to slow these processes down and turn them around. Their goal is not to strengthen global security or engage in joint development, but to maintain their hegemony in international affairs and to keep on pursuing their neo-colonial agenda, or in simple terms, to continue to address their own problems at the expense of others, as they are accustomed to do."

 

Here he weighs in on the West and its foreign policies and how these policies have impacted developing nations (i.e. the Global South and Global East), emphasizing the use of sanctions to punish nations that do not fall into line with the West's agenda and how this has led to the new global reality:

 

"Unilateral economic sanctions and our Western colleagues’ overall selfish foreign policy undermine global food and energy security. Their actions have complicated things for the developing countries. Enormous amounts of money that could have been spent on promoting international growth, including on helping the countries that are most in need, are being burned up in the form of thousands of tonnes of military equipment and ammunition supplied to Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

 

Western egocentrism and disregard for the interests of the Global South and Global East encourage the latter to look for alternative cooperation formats across all areas. The seizure of Russian gold and currency reserves in the United States and Europe have led the international community to realise that no one is immune from expropriation of tangible assets that are kept in Western jurisdictions. Not just Russia, but a number of other countries are consistently reducing their dependence on the US dollar and transitioning to alternative payment systems and payments in national currencies.

 

At the same time, the effectiveness of country associations without Western participation is on the rise. The SCO and BRICS are a case of modern multilateral diplomacy without leaders or followers where decisions are made based on consensus....".

 

Russia's leadership is clearly seeing the new global geopolitical reality and is playing a key role, along with China, in the global realignment.  While Washington still holds sway over many nations in the world largely because of the importance of the U.S. dollar to the global economy, it's ability to influence many of the world's largest nations is waning as the sun sets on decades of Pax Americana.  Those leaders who choose to wholeheartedly propagate the Western philosophy of exceptionalism are doomed to fail as the Global South and Global East rise.

Vladimir Putin, the Rules-based Order and the West's Law of the Fist

After Russia's official recent recognition and the accession of the Ukraine's four breakaway regions as shown on this map:

 

...which is not surprising considering this:

 

...and the explosion which has crippled the Nordstream 1 and Nordstream 2 pipelines as shown here:

 

 

...the contents of a recent address by Vladimir Putin to Russian citizens on September 30, 2022, commemorating the signing of the treaties on the accession of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions to Russia  is most important as it clearly outlines Russia's sentiment toward the West and its anti-Russia/anti-Putin narrative.

  

Here is the speech in its entirety with subtitles in English:

 

 

Let's look at some key excerpts provided by the Kremlin's English language website.  He opens by with these statements (all bolds throughout are mine):

  

"As you know, referendums have been held in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. The ballots have been counted and the results have been announced. The people have made their unequivocal choice.

 

Today we will sign treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye Region and Kherson Region to the Russian Federation. I have no doubt that the Federal Assembly will support the constitutional laws on the accession to Russia and the establishment of four new regions, our new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, because this is the will of millions of people. 

 

It is undoubtedly their right, an inherent right sealed in Article 1 of the UN Charter, which directly states the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.

 

I want the Kiev authorities and their true handlers in the West to hear me now, and I want everyone to remember this: the people living in Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporozhye have become our citizens, forever."

 

By "true handlers", Putin is referring to Europe, the Anglo Saxons in particular, and the United States, aka "the West".

  

Now let's look at how Putin describes the West's historical relationship with Russia:

 

"When the Soviet Union collapsed, the West decided that the world and all of us would permanently accede to its dictates. In 1991, the West thought that Russia would never rise after such shocks and would fall to pieces on its own. This almost happened. We remember the horrible 1990s, hungry, cold and hopeless. But Russia remained standing, came alive, grew stronger and occupied its rightful place in the world.  

 

Meanwhile, the West continued and continues looking for another chance to strike a blow at us, to weaken and break up Russia, which they have always dreamed about, to divide our state and set our peoples against each other, and to condemn them to poverty and extinction. They cannot rest easy knowing that there is such a great country with this huge territory in the world, with its natural wealth, resources and people who cannot and will not do someone else’s bidding.

 

The West is ready to cross every line to preserve the neo-colonial system which allows it to live off the world, to plunder it thanks to the domination of the dollar and technology, to collect an actual tribute from humanity, to extract its primary source of unearned prosperity, the rent paid to the hegemon. The preservation of this annuity is their main, real and absolutely self-serving motivation. This is why total de-sovereignisation is in their interest. This explains their aggression towards independent states, traditional values and authentic cultures, their attempts to undermine international and integration processes, new global currencies and technological development centres they cannot control. It is critically important for them to force all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the United States....

 

I want to underscore again that their insatiability and determination to preserve their unfettered dominance are the real causes of the hybrid war that the collective West is waging against Russia. They do not want us to be free; they want us to be a colony. They do not want equal cooperation; they want to loot. They do not want to see us a free society, but a mass of soulless slaves.

 

They see our thought and our philosophy as a direct threat. That is why they target our philosophers for assassination. Our culture and art present a danger to them, so they are trying to ban them. Our development and prosperity are also a threat to them because competition is growing. They do not want or need Russia, but we do.

 

I would like to remind you that in the past, ambitions of world domination have repeatedly shattered against the courage and resilience of our people. Russia will always be Russia. We will continue to defend our values and our Motherland."

  

In the eyes of Russians, Russians are Russians first, the rest of the world be damned.

 

Putin goes on to describe some key aspects of America's historical geopolitical manoeuvrings:

 

"The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And they created a precedent.

 

Recall that during WWII the United States and Britain reduced Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities to rubble, without the least military necessity. It was done ostentatiously and, to repeat, without any military necessity. They had only one goal, as with the nuclear bombing of Japanese cities: to intimidate our country and the rest of the world.  

 

The United States left a deep scar in the memory of the people of Korea and Vietnam with their carpet bombings and use of napalm and chemical weapons.  

 

It actually continues to occupy Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, which they cynically refer to as equals and allies. Look now, what kind of alliance is that? The whole world knows that the top officials in these countries are being spied on and that their offices and homes are bugged. It is a disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and meekly swallow this arrogant behaviour.  

 

They call the orders and threats they make to their vassals Euro-Atlantic solidarity, and the creation of biological weapons and the use of human test subjects, including in Ukraine, noble medical research.  

 

It is their destructive policies, wars and plunder that have unleashed today’s massive wave of migrants. Millions of people endure hardships and humiliation or die by the thousands trying to reach Europe."

 

Here is his interesting description of America's "Law of the Fist", its template for ruling the globe:

 

"The dictates of the US are backed up by crude force, on the law of the fist. Sometimes it is beautifully wrapped sometimes there is no wrapping at all but the gist is the same – the law of the fist. Hence, the deployment and maintenance of hundreds of military bases in all corners of the world, NATO expansion, and attempts to cobble together new military alliances, such as AUKUS and the like. Much is being done to create a Washington-Seoul-Tokyo military-political chain. All states that possess or aspire to genuine strategic sovereignty and are capable of challenging Western hegemony, are automatically declared enemies."

 

...and how the West's belief in its own exceptionalism will be its downfall:

 

"At the same time, the West has clearly been engaged in wishful thinking for a long time. In launching the sanctions blitzkrieg against Russia, for example, they thought that they could once again line up the whole world at their command. As it turns out, however, such a bright prospect does not excite everyone – other than complete political masochists and admirers of other unconventional forms of international relations. Most states refuse to ”snap a salute“ and instead choose the sensible path of cooperation with Russia.

 

The West clearly did not expect such insubordination. They simply got used to acting according to a template, to grab whatever they please, by blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and convinced themselves that these methods would work forever, as if they had fossilised in the past. 

 

Such self-confidence is a direct product not only of the notorious concept of exceptionalism – although it never ceases to amaze – but also of the real ”information hunger“ in the West. The truth has been drowned in an ocean of myths, illusions and fakes, using extremely aggressive propaganda, lying like Goebbels. The more unbelievable the lie, the quicker people will believe it – that is how they operate, according to this principle.

But people cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros. You can't feed them with those pieces of paper, and the virtual, inflated capitalisation of western social media companies can't heat their homes. Everything I am saying is important. And what I just said is no less so: you can't feed anyone with paper – you need food; and you can't heat anyone’s home with these inflated capitalisations – you need energy.

 

That is why politicians in Europe have to convince their fellow citizens to eat less, take a shower less often and dress warmer at home. And those who start asking fair questions like “Why is that, in fact?” are immediately declared enemies, extremists and radicals. They point back at Russia and say: that is the source of all your troubles. More lies."

 

And, since we constantly hear from the West's ruling class that Russia (and China for that matter) are not following the "rules-based order", let's close this posting with Putin's concept on that very issue:

 

"And all we hear is, the West is insisting on a rules-based order. Where did that come from anyway? Who has ever seen these rules? Who agreed or approved them? Listen, this is just a lot of nonsense, utter deceit, double standards, or even triple standards! They must think we’re stupid.  

 

Russia is a great thousand-year-old power, a whole civilisation, and it is not going to live by such makeshift, false rules.

 

It was the so-called West that trampled on the principle of the inviolability of borders, and now it is deciding, at its own discretion, who has the right to self-determination and who does not, who is unworthy of it. It is unclear what their decisions are based on or who gave them the right to decide in the first place. They just assumed it."

Let's summarize with these comments from the United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken which nicely summarizes Washington's views toward Russia:

 

Let's close with these thoughts.  Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has taken upon itself the mantle of the sole purveyor of all that is good in the world and has vilified any nation, particularly the former USSR and its current offspring, of being in violation of international laws and morals.  Ask yourself if you truly believe that this is factual.  Look at the examples of Iran in the 1950s, Chile in the 1970s, Nicaragua in 1979 and onward, Iraq in the 1980s and again in 2003, Afghanistan in 2001 and onwards until 2021, and both Libya and Syria in 2011 and onwards.  As well, look at the examples of "former friends" of Washington including Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein and enemies including Salvador Allende and Muammar Qaddafi.  How did the rules-based international order work out for those nations and those individuals?  Is it any wonder that Vladimir Putin and his partners in other nations, including China, view the West and its self-serving unipolar world narrative as the source of all that is wrong with the global geopolitical landscape?  

Western leaders would be wise to remember that Russia doesn't bluff.  It's in it for the long game.  As the nation with the highest body count during the Second World War, it would be wise to remember that Russians have a long memory of what it is like to be treated with distain by other nations.  It would also be wise to consider who really is wielding the "Law of the Fist".

Vostok-2022 Exercises: Another Sign of the End of the Unipolar World Order

One of my favourite non-Western news sources is Global Times, a media outlet that represents the views of China's Communist Party, an insider's viewpoint that Westerners rarely hear.  In a recent edition, I found this interesting article:

 

China's participation in the Vostok-2022 exercise was also noted by Russia's TASS News Agency as shown here:

 

 

This is the first time that the People's Liberation Army has sent ground, naval and air forces to Vostok.

 

As an aside, not only is China participating, but troops from another nation in the region will also be attending as shown here:

 

 

The 2022 edition of the Vostok military exercises will take place between August 30 and September 5, 2022 and will involve military personnel from the aforementioned China and India as well as from Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other nations.  Russia's military will lead the exercises which will be under the command of Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

  

Despite that fact that Russia has been vilified by the West since its military actions in Ukraine, reducing it to a pariah state, the Vostok-2022 exercises prove to that Russia still has the diplomatic power to organize other nations into its military orbit.

  

Here is the announcement of China's participation in Vostok-2022 as found on the nation's Ministry of Defense English language website:

 

One can only hope that Washington notes the second sentence of the announcement given that both nations regard the United States as a "security threat":

 

"The Chinese military's participation in the exercise is unrelated to the current international and regional situation, but designed to deepen practical and friendly cooperation with the militaries of participating countries, enhance the level of strategic coordination and strengthen the ability to cope with various security threats."

 

The growing bonhomie between Russia and China has been on exhibit for several years with the militaries of the two nations increasingly interacting as shown in this press release from China's Ministry of Defense, announcing its participation in the International Army Games that were held in a Moscow suburb during the second-last week of August 2022:

 

..and this press release announcing China's participation in the Sea Cup vessel contest of the International Army Games:

 

Given that the ties between China and Russia are now the closest that they have been since the end of the Cold War, this partnership bears watching as it is the greatest threat to Washington's fading global dominance and could well signal the death throes of the unipolar world order that has been America's reality since the collapse of the USSR.

Vladimir Putin and the Failure of the Global Neoliberal Order

At the recent forum Strong Ideas for the New Times which was organized by the non-profit, autonomous Agency for Strategic Initiatives:

 

 

...Vladimir Putin made some very pointed and pertinent comments during his address to the plenary session.  

  

As background, the annual Forum acts as a crowdsourcing platform for Russia's most imaginative people whose ideas will be used to reboot Russia's economy, social and technology spheres. Let's look at some of the key excerpts.  The mission of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives is as follows:

 

 

At this year's Forum, 87,000 people from across Russia submitted more than 19,000 projects aimed at "... creating technological sovereignty, training personnel in demand, improving the quality of life, and driving regional growth...."

  

The projects were accepted in seven categories, such as HR, technology, social sphere, environment, regional development, and entrepreneurship, and there is also an Open Conversation (other proposals for the national development which do not fit into the specified topics).  Of the top 200 ideas that were discussed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, 100 initiatives and projects were selected for the two-day face-to-face meeting held this past week with 10 of them being presented directly to the nation's leadership at the plenary session.  

  

With that information as background to the setting for Vladimir Putin's comments, let's look at a few quotes that are particularly pertinent given the evolution of the unipolar global world order also known as the international rules-based order which is predicated on American dominance with all bolds throughout being mine.

 

"National and global processes are underway to develop the fundamentals and principles of a harmonious, fairer and more community-focused and safe world order as an alternative to the existing world order, or the unipolar world order in which we lived, and which, because of its nature, is definitely becoming a brake on the development of our civilisation."

  

Before we look at the next quote, an explanation is in order. In Russian terms, the "Golden Billion" is "...an allegory intended to designate the most wealthy part of humans living predominated in the most developed nations and having all that is needed for a secure and comfortable life."  The "Golden Billion" term was coined by Anatoly Tsikunov in his book from 1990 entitled "The Plot of World Government: Russia and the Golden Billion".  In general, the "Golden Billion" can be thought of as the global elite who consume far more than their share of natural resources and that the wealth of Western elites is based on their exploitation of the lower classes, particularly those that live in former colonies whose resources were plundered by the elite.

  

Here is the next quote of interest given the explanation of the Golden Billion":

 

"The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism? It divides the world into first and second-class people and is therefore essentially racist and neo-colonial. The underlying globalist and pseudo-liberal ideology is becoming increasingly more like totalitarianism and is restraining creative endeavour and free historical creation.

One gets the impression that the West is simply unable to offer the world a model for the future of its own. "

After seeing the response of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States (among others) to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is little doubt that we have entered an era of neoliberal totalitarianism.

 

And, according to Putin, here is how the West attained its position of preeminence in the world:

 

"Indeed, it was no accident that the golden billion attained its gold and achieved quite a lot, but it got there not because it implemented certain concepts. It mainly got to where it is by robbing other peoples in Asia and Africa. That is how it was. India was robbed for an extensive period of time. This is why the elite of the golden billion are terrified of other global development centres potentially coming up with their own development alternatives."

 

Here is his comment on the existing global order:

 

"No matter how much the West and the supranational elite strive to preserve the existing order, a new era and a new stage in world history are coming. Only genuinely sovereign states are in a position to ensure a high growth dynamic and become a role model for others in terms of standards of living and quality of life, the protection of traditional values and high humanistic ideals, and development models where an individual is not a means, but the ultimate goal."

 

In closing, here is a quote where Putin tout's the "Russian advantage", a particularly interesting concept given the West's attempts to sanction Russia out of existence:

 

"I would like to emphasise that to move forward into the future we need to remember our great, glorious past, rely on our traditions and be proud of our achievements. And, once again, we must move forward by all means. It is absolutely unacceptable to rest on our laurels, look back to the past and be happy at recalling what our fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers did. No. We must certainly rely on this enormous experience and the achievements of our nation, our peoples – our advantage lies in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious nature of our country – but we must of course look to the future and move only forward."

 

If you wish to read Putin's entire speech, you can find it here.

 

China and the Five Eyes Alliance

While many people are unaware of its existence, an intelligence alliance formed in 1946, was created between five anglophone nations and their security agencies.  The partnership includes:

 

1.) the United States and the National Security Administration (NSA)

 

2.) the United Kingdom and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

 

3.) Canada and Communications Security Establishment (CSEC)

 

4.) Australia and Australian Signals Directorate (ASD)

 

5.) New Zealand and Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB)

  

Through a lengthy series of intricate and secret bilateral agreements, the Five Eyes partners conduct the interception, collection, acquisition, analysis and decryption activities, sharing the intelligence data obtained with their partner nations by default.  The secretive arrangements allow for unlawful intrusions on the right to privacy of the citizens of these five nations.  Here is a quote about Five Eyes' data sharing from Privacy International:

 

"It has been believed for some time that much of the intelligence produced by the Five Eyes can be accessed by any of the partner states at any time. As early as the 1980’s, ECHELON, a “global Internet-like communication network,” allowed Five Eyes analysts to “task computers at each collection site, and receive the results” on civil satellite communications.

 

It is likely that the Five Eyes agencies have adopted common approaches to collection and similar interfaces as means of making intelligence co-operation and sharing more expedient. Yet agencies in different member states operate under disparate systems of laws and practice, making some effort to harmonize such standards beneficial given the functional integration and co-operation across the Five Eyes."

 

Thanks to revelations by Edward Snowden, we now know that Five Eyes have integrated programs, staff, bases and analysis and that the information that they glean is shared with all partners.

 

In March 2020, Five Eyes member states agreed to expand its role away from security and intelligence to a stance that weighed in on human rights and democracy, focussing on online child sexual exploitation and abuse as shown on this statement from March 2022:

According to a press release from the United States Department of Defense regarding a Five Eyes meeting held in October 2020, we find that the Five Eyes is focussing on security challenges, most particularly those in the Indo-Pacific region (i.e. China, particularly given its strained relationship with Five Eyes' member Australia):

 

Now, let's see how China fits into the Five Eyes agenda.  China has been following Five Eyes and its newly expanded role as shown in this quote from the Global Times dated December 22, 2020 with bolds throughout this posting being mine:

  

"Amid strained China-Australia relations, Five Eyes nations are reportedly in preliminary discussions on how to respond to China's actions with one source describing cooperation within the alliance as "off the charts at the moment", NewsCorp reported. That means they may coordinate to impose restrictions on China. As a matter of fact, due to the hegemonic status and great influence of the US in world affairs, the Five Eyes alliance has become a tool for the US to maintain its dominant position. The US has long viewed China as a major strategic threat, and it is not surprising that it would lead the Five Eyes alliance to take collective actions against China for a variety of reasons. 

 

Take ideological differences, for example. The US and other Five Eyes countries are typical Western countries with democratic political systems, and they harbor widespread bias against Chinese socialist ideological values. The Five Eyes countries subconsciously view China with a Cold War and zero-sum game mentality. On the basis of ideology, these countries highlight their identity as democratic and free countries by cooperating to counter "Communist China.

 

The idea to build the Five Eyes alliance into a new anti-China axis is a wishful thinking. It will only encounter harsh realities. "

 

Recent opinion pieces and news items in Global Times continue to convey China's views on Five Eyes as shown here:

 

...and quoted here:

 

"The alliance has been behind issues including the origins-tracing of COVID-19, issues related to China's Xinjiang and Hong Kong, and the South China Sea. The Five Eyes has moved from a secret espionage and intelligence organization in the past to a coalition that becomes more and more China-phobic, and resorts to more and more abominable methods....

 

In recent years, in order to meet Washington's strategic needs to suppress China, the Five Eyes alliance has once again used the so-called China threat to prolong its existence, and has gradually transformed from an intelligence-sharing mechanism to an "information command" dedicated to anti-China policy coordination....

 

An organization that should have hidden only in the dark and used disgraceful means to "contain its opponents" suddenly began to act ostentatiously by simply relying on anti-China propaganda. For example, intelligence agencies in Australia and other countries frequently approach and harass the Chinese communities in those countries, coercing them to become informants for the Five Eyes. The consulates of the Five Eyes member countries stationed in Hong Kong have almost become the "commander-in-chief of interference and subversion." The alliance, in the name of "protecting national security," also smears and attacks high-tech companies in other countries, especially China, without any evidence.... (think Huawei)

 

As a matter of fact, the Five Eyes has become a "gangster group" with obvious racism. Its hostility and anxiety toward China come from its deep-rooted values of white supremacy and racial discrimination, and it is unwilling to see Chinese people's lives getting increasingly better.

 

Nominally, the five countries share intelligence, but the truth is that the four eyes rely on and take orders from the "one eye" - the US. Even Western media have to admit that most of the intelligence shared within the Five Eyes alliance comes from Washington....

 

Being good at creating "imaginary enemies" has always been an inherent feature of the US' strategy, but the US' decision-making and intelligence departments have become increasingly paranoid in implementing the strategy of "creating enemies." The way the US government has been conducting diplomacy in recent years is more and more like the way an intelligent agency or the CIA does. US intelligence departments provide decision-making departments with analysis that distorts the truth and meets specific political needs, and decision-making departments follow these highly hostile playbooks to handle related diplomatic issues."

 

....and here:

 

...and quoted here

 

"When asked about the Global Times' exclusive report on the Five Eyes Alliance which is fabricating evidence that intends to show China is "infiltrating politically into Western countries," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a press conference on Tuesday that China demands an explanation from relevant countries. 

 

In terms of political infiltration, Western countries such as the US have considerable expertise in practicing it, Wang noted. 

 

In the name of "freedom and democracy," the US instigated "color revolutions" in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and other places to create regional turbulence to achieve its own geopolitical goals, Wang said...

 

Politicians in the US, the UK, and other countries are in collusion with secessionists in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Acting as a pawn and white glove of the US government, the National Endowment for Democracy has repeatedly interfered in Hong Kong's affairs, attempting to turn the city into a bridgehead for subversion and infiltration, Wang added. 

 

The fact that the US and the UK are interfering and infiltrating into China, while distorting facts and blaming China instead, reveals their deep-rooted Cold War mentality and ideological bias, Wang said. 

 

In the name of "anti-infiltration," relevant countries have carried out political persecution against persons engaged in normal exchanges and cooperation with China, to create a chilling effect and to bring McCarthyism back to life, which has not only seriously damaged the bilateral relations between these countries and China, but also encouraged racial discrimination and hateful words and deeds in these countries, Wang noted." 

 

As you can see from China's views on Five Eyes, China looks at the world through its own cultural filter which is far different from Western culture.  In large part, China's current role as a global superpower was created by the Clinton Administration which insisted that the future health of global trade relied on China's accession to the World Trade Organization in December 2001.   This move eventually resulted in a China that has the world by the "short and curlies" with the deindustrialized West being very heavily reliant on Chinese goods just as Europe is very heavily reliant on Russia's hydrocarbon reserves and the remainder of the West is reliant on Russia's massive inventory of non-hydrocarbon natural resources.  Both China and Russia play the long game; they can be patient and wait as the West slowly but surely loses its place of global prominence.  Such is not the case for the West and their waning influence on global geopolitics.