Commentary out of Russia and China has come out denouncing the hysteria among certain politicians in the US, regarding the joint Russian-Chinese naval patrol that passed through the Bering Sea last week. Alaska’s two Republican senators, Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, issued statements claiming that the Russian-Chinese patrol was a military threat to Alaska, and the US Navy deployed four destroyers to track it.
According to Global Times, the US deployment of the four destroyers exposes the US’s double standard that only allows its military presence near other countries while not accepting other countries’ military presence near itself, observers said, urging the US to reflect on itself, said the Global Times. “In the future, the Chinese Navy could conduct more far sea patrols like this, either alone or together with other countries. The Americans should get used to it,” said Fu Qianshao, a Chinese military expert.
Chinese military expert Song Zhongping told the South China Morning Post that the joint exercise, which also involved a passage through the Sea of Japan, was meant to highlight the close relationship between the two countries amid the war in Ukraine. “With their ‘no limits’ ties, Beijing and Moscow want to show their determination to strengthen their strategic cooperation,” he said. “Just like the US’ ‘freedom of navigation’ in the backyard of China in the Asia-Pacific, the PLA and Russian military want to show they can sail and operate anywhere as international law allows.”
“The US is the most militaristic and aggressive country in modern history. It has established a global military presence that spans every single continent with hundreds of military bases. In doing so, it claims it supports the freedom and self-determination of others,” says Timur Fomenko, identified only as “a political analyst,” writing in RT. “In reality, it provocatively encircles states that it deems rivals to its own global dominance, escalates tensions, and then when these states respond to the situation, subsequently brands them as the ‘aggressors,’ thus affirming and even expanding its military footprint in these given regions.”
