Under the headline, “China-Russia Ties Deepen While U.S. and Allies Flail,” the editorial in the March 21 Global Times took note of the extensive global diplomacy taking place at this time: the 2+2 meetings in Japan and South Korea; the Anchorage meeting; Gen. Austin in India; Secretary Blinken heading for Brussels today for four days of NATO meetings, and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov going to China today. While the anti-China and anti-Russia policies were at the center of the American meetings, the paper reported that “Beijing and Moscow usually do not proactively aim at Washington when discussing their strategic partnership.” In fact, they stated, China and Russia do not believe in “alliances": “China and Russia’s move to forge a partnership rather than an alliance is displaying their confidence, and is more in line with the spirit of this era.... Of course, global strategic goodwill is the foundation of a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Russia in the new era. Yet perhaps the U.S. will never learn to show such goodwill.”
Ordering the world into “blocs” and “alliances” is no longer working, the editorial stated. “The role of strengthening the alliance between the U.S. and its allies, which is now promoted by the new U.S. administration, will be limited. If the U.S. relies on its alliance to solve the problems caused by its outdated hegemonism, it will be a crazy act.”
