concern has been increasing, _ russia, china interest?g, of course, - russia, china interest? concern has been increasing, of course, as - russia, china interest? concern has been increasing, of course, as the l been increasing, of course, as the strategic competition between the united states and china and russia had been increasing in general. and we have seen that there has been more nato focus on the region, specially in the past few years, but also the united states, in particular, the second half of the trump administration, has directed more military strength to the region and the exercises have become larger, we have seen surface naval presence, especially in european part of the arctic where russia has the strongest military presence. and we have seen also increased their activity, us bombers have been landing on bases in norway. the concern is increasing, as is the nato and united states presence in the region, in order to counter this growing chinese russian cooperation. for now, it is at a political and scientific and economic

how much interest been from russia and china? _ level. sia, _ russia and china? enormous interest, in fact. for prussia, russia _ russia and china? enormous interest, in fact. for prussia, russia has - russia and china? enormous interest, in fact. for prussia, russia has had i in fact. for prussia, russia has had in fact. for prussia, russia has had in ambition to become the dominating arctic nation and they have actually deliberating and working to expand their economic presence and also the military presence over the past 15 years, at least. and china has joined. china actually call themselves near arctic nation. they have strategic interests trust in the region, resources, and fish resources and they have been expanding their scientific presence. also the cooperation between china and russia have expanded. also as a leverage against the west. the and russia have expanded. also as a leverage against the west.— leverage against the west. the fact that the ocean _ leverage against the west. the fact that the ocean is _ leverage against the

so much like china, india to refuse to condemn russia for its invasion. but unlike china, it wasn't an act of support for moscow. but a strategic choice for new delhi. the 2 countries have very strong ties. getting back to the cold war and russia still supplies, the bulk of india is weapons. it's a time for a friendship, that's all the foreign ministers of hope sides beat in debbie in early april with russia only to keep, to offer india whatever if needed. we will be ready to supply any goods which indeed wants to buy, and i have no doubt that it would be out to bypass the artificial impediments which illegal all sessions by the with 3. and we saw how, despite sanctions india increased it, but chances of discounted russian oil by a factor of 5 when compared to last. yeah. so does not provide an indication of where indian foreign policies now headed did lose delhi bureau chief, i'm into cima. has mall india appears to have found its balance on the diplomatic tightrope when it comes to the worn ukraine. it's no longer feeling diffident or defensive, about re

them into competition for the area, but this is a factor that is thinking about, how do we keep russia and china divided, how do we deal with the threats from russia and china, maybe cooperate with them? this is an area where there has been some progression, at least diplomatically. afghanistan is interesting because it is in a -- an example of a world of great powers rivaling the united states, russia and china. host: this is joe in biddeford, maine, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to ask a couple quick questions before i forget. you seem to imply that the trump and biden administrations had some kind of agreement, they had a policy that they agreed on. i don't think that happened. my second point i would like you to clarify, they asked why there was an afghanistan represented --. i would like you to go further, they release 1000 taliban from the prison. taliban released in the prison, i don't know what town it was in, but obama released 13 americans, which everyone is crying about. it was pompeo that released the taliban prisoners, not obama. can you focus on that? gues

but in the case of ivan, russia supported china unconditionally and the speaker of the president of russiakov said that the russian federation supports the position of china alone, that is, that it considers taiwan to be a part of the territory of the people 's republic of china . to take the history of melting, then this island belonged to the portuguese and the japanese and to many other invaders and now it is about the fact that she has vacuum cleaners who planned this trip to the far east a long time ago and today she is already meeting with officials in singapore and will visit malaysia, then south korea and japan. she has her own personal accounts, let's say with the people's republic of china, and in the 91st year, when she was in china on a visit and still with two wheels, she unfurled the flag of the republic of china on uh, the square of darkness where mass shootings of students took place in 1989 and they were crushed by tanks if we remember this video that's why that 's why uh she has her own accounts but now when her visit was announced it was no longer about what she can go t

and that's strong rival power such as russia, china and the u. s. to compete for strategic influence. on friday, washington declared that it will name and ambassador at large for the arctic region . during his visit to the arctic nato secretary general warned of russia's increased military capacity, and china's growing interest in the region installed and met with justin trudeau, the prime minister of canada. one of the 8 arctic nations need those news to teach . the concept identifies rochelle capabilities in the north to teach challenge for the whole alarms. russia has set up a new arctic command. it has opened hundreds of new and former, so it's era arctic military sites, including air fields and deep water ports. russia is also using the region as a testbed for many of its new and novel weapon systems. obviously, a climate change is creating greater accessibility to the arctic and bringing with it real concerns and challenges around that. but as well, the ill fated unjustifiable decision of russia to append nearly 70 years of peace and stability

both sides, china and russia, - that most concerns india. that they've done before and nothing more should be read into this. is that true, do you agree with that assessment? it’s is that true, do you agree with that assessment?— that assessment? it's difficult to tell because _ that assessment? it's difficult to tell because we _ that assessment? it's difficult to tell because we don't - that assessment? it's difficult to tell because we don't knowj to tell because we don't know precisely what drills. they've always had — we've typically had something new when they tested out new skills last year, for example they did joint integrated units that took place in china, and i think this probably won't in itself display any particularly major military innovation prepared to pass, but what's key here is context occurring in the midst of russia's invasion of ukraine, when other countries are trying to limit their military ties with russia. so the fact that russia will show that it can conduct operations on two france, china's supporting that, that

i am confident that through the joint efforts of people promoting friendship between china and russia, our humanitarian cooperation will be long-lasting, and our peoples will become even closer to be closer - this is the head of the copper corporation of china, shanhai sen, who also received today the russian order of friendship for special merits in strengthening the peace of cooperation between china and russia this is of course not about 6,000 km, which separates moscow and beijing, being closer is to have similar views in assessing the events taking place with the chinese view from inside the viewers of russia are already familiar with china central television specially for news, like china. appreciated the russian documentaries, those priceless archives donated to the energy of the anniversary, but the main thing, for us, is that the inhabitants of the middle kingdom, and there are almost 1.5 billion of them. they better understood the processes taking place in our documentary films in the country, special reports, author's programs on the air of chinese television, there will be

say that china doesn't really want to support russia. that's not true at all. and i think it's in china's own interest. they're fearful of secondary sanctions. if china does support russia with weapons that will trigger you as a secondary sanctions. so i think that china is helping russia by buying oil. and i think that they're getting a discount on that as well. so there is mutual support for russia in china. we really have to see the world as it is not as we would like it to be. some people have said that, you know, of course, this is no one likes it's you 2 front war maybe china and russia could cooperate by causing more problems in the balkans since china has so many weapons in serbia and including their drone program. so i think that there is room for mr. between russia and china, coordinating in other regions, but i think that it serves china's purpose is to have a we can russia over the longer term. so, right. they can just say we can't tell you anything because of us sanctions are publicly of course the taiwan has welcome to visit

won't be, don't accept any other country to be and the forefront or just to be like a rival with russia or china with the south. the idea of bricks plus the brakes, countries and brazil, russia, india, china and south africa plus other countries like mexico and gina, and even in central european countries are falling to line. so you can see the world is changing. it's no longer be paid by u. s. equity, but then again for the washington and the local, the western country is still living in a and a dream, as if they can continue to sit on top of the world. ah, no respect for tramps supporting republicans. that's jo biden's view of those who follow america is ex president. ahead of the looming mid term elections. i respect conservative republicans. i don't respect these maggie republicans will, would be a nation of unity of hope, of optimism. not a nation of anger, of violence, hatred and aversion drop an extreme minor republic has had made their choice to go backwards full of anger violence ada division, but we've chosen a different path. the u. s. president also slammed the make america great aga

china. so united was a, russia and china needs to work hard to protect it. i felt that she coinciding with the visit, the white house released as a document detailing it's new strategy towards sub saharan regents. the plan promotes us involvement in african nations policies, including issues such as pandemic, climate change and food insecurity. and while blank and says the u. s. won't tell africa how to behave. it also shows washington, not happy with the continents ties with russia and china, the people's republic of china. by contrast, the region as an important arena to challenge the rules based international order, and we can us relations with african peoples and governments. russia use the region as a permissive environment for paras, stables, and private military companies, often fermenting instability for strategic and financial benefit. u. s. accusations, however, don't prevent deepening ties as china is now south africa's biggest trading partner . moscow straight with the country is also on the rise with monthly exports from russia. this january gro

russia will start some military exercises with china. nd china have engaged in a joint military drill. the military drills will run for a week and include a number of other nations including india, belarus and mongolia. it's the second time this year that russia and china have been engaged injoint military drills. earlier on the programme we spoke to richard weitz from the hudson institute. he told us a little more about the relationship between the two eastern powers. we have seen the relationship become much stronger than many people thought possible at the end of the cold war so in the past 30 years, we've seen their leaderships grow particularly close under presidents putin and >>. ——xi. we seen the growth of the energy trade and other economic ties most importantly we've seen strengthen military ties which are represented these exercises that used to occur every year or so, that used to occur every year orso, now that used to occur every year or so, now there are several of them each year, some naval, and in this case primarily groun

and then we're going to have a large group that starts to migrate towards supporting china, russia, and some of the other countries that are represented in the bridge environment. and that respects. and what do you think the u. s. strategy will be for africa in terms of considering china's growing influence as well. busy china's employee rush has been there for a long time. the thing about china that people failed to realize is the child has always had an equal, yoked opportunity for what is in their interest and what they want to give to the people in the environment that are trying to help. and so it's, it's, you know, they've been there for decades. they've done things like build roads infrastructure going to the united states has failed to do. and so i don't think that the influence of china has, i think that the people of africa are very grateful for that. and if you will just pass all of the technological advancements and the things that china has done, individuals for different nations and for the continent of africa. i think that the u. s. is going to have a hard time based on t

also the built in rhode initiative that china is, is building. and with russia renewed commitment to the continents. i see it as a burgeoning new block that is willing to develop african nations and to allow for their sovereignty. instead of how the imperialist and colonial power is used to do that with the jail political changes. can we see this cooperation as a sign that developing countries are coming together to tackle regional issues? maybe perhaps they feel betrayed by the west. absolutely, absolutely. without a doubt, i think overall, the past few centuries on the african continent have been written with blood and genocide. and i believe that now in this twilight of us had gemini, i think what we are experiencing is a new multi polar situation where china, russia, iran, cuba, venezuela, nicaragua, south africa. many of these countries are coming together and saying, we don't want to rely on the west. you know, the 5 eyes, the u. s. u, a nato. we want to rely on ourselves. we want to develop ourselves and we want to, you know, insured the sovereignty self

countries to see everything that happens in them and in the world through the eyes of eyewitnesses, russia china hand in hand. i am confident with the common efforts of people promoting friendship between china and russia

china. what's needed to restore security? this is inside story. ♪ welcome to the program. the west could stumble into a nuclear war with russia or china. the warning from britain's national security advisor who says communication channels between the west and its rivals have collapsed. russia's invasion of ukraine is the clearest example of this breakdown. diplomacy failed to prevent the war. moscow and keefe haven't held face-to-face talk since march. the conflict is just the beginning of a broader contest for successor to the post-cold war international border. he is warning of new security risks as countries develop more advanced weapons and compete in outer space and cyberspace. the solution, better dialogue between the rest and china. >> we benefited from a series of negotiations and dialogues that improve their understanding of soviet doctrine and capabilities and vice versa. this gave both of us a higher level of confidence that we would not miscalculate our way into nuclear war. today, we don't have the same foundations with others who may threaten us in the future. particularly with china. the u.k. strongly supports president

other country to be in the forefront or just to be like a life with china, with the idea of plus the brakes. countries in brazil, russia, india, china and south africa. other countries like mexico and gina, and even in central european countries are falling to line. so you can see the oil is changing, no longer be paid by u. s. equity. but then again, for the washington and a lot of the western countries still living in a, a g s. if they can continue to sit on top of the world. ah, american special envoy to the western balk and says he helps tension between christina and belgrade. do not escalate. yeah, it has thrown further feel to the fire by stating that the very idea that possible is part of serbia should be forgotten, raising a few eyebrows. i think we have to move away from the narrative that close of always serbia and move toward the the narrative that causal and serbia are europe. the envoy acknowledge that washington is not a participant in the dialogue between serbia and pulse of all talks that serbian president, alexander who church says have failed to ease tensions that are generally going in the right dire

and the result is that, i think the chinese yellow american succeed in this campaign against russia. china is going to be next and that's very important. now, on the other hand, there was, the situation with russia were creating more emphasis. invoices, there seems to be for the resumption of the iranian nuclear talk. they're in slow motion again. and while i understand what's in it with americans, after all, around, there's a large oil producer and we already mentioned be, you know, the discontent, american voters, when they come to the gas station, what i cannot understand is, wasn't it for iran, why would your country need another agreement with the american would be easily revolved by the previous administration by this for having, by this next administration. rather, that is why you have a need as a really cost about him. and is this american saying that you for me, once, shame on you for me twice, shame, shame on me. so they don't, i don't want to be sort of see the same problem again like the american iranians are actually starting the years folk lower and relying on some of the ame

other country to be and the full front or just to be like alive with china, with the idea of a plus the brakes. countries in brazil, russia, india, china and south africa plus other countries like mexico and gina. and even in central european countries are falling to line. so you can see that the . busy is changing, i no longer be paid by and you with me again, but in washington, and a lot of the western countries still living in a and a g. s. if they can continue to sit on top of the world. ah, no respect for tramps supporting republicans that show by in view of those who follow america ex president ahead of the looming mid term elections. i respect conservative republicans. i don't respect these miger republicans will, would be a nation of unity of hope, of optimism, not evasion of anger, violence, hatred, and division trumpeter extreme major republicans have made their choice to go backwards. full of anger, violence change in division, but we've chosen a different path. the u. s. president also slammed the make america great again, philosophy, a semi fascism at a democratic riley. republicans have called biden's commen

other country to be and the full front or just to be like a rival with china, with the idea of plus the brakes. countries and resume russia, india, china, and south africa plus all the countries like mexico gina and even central european countries. i'm calling to line so you can see the world is changing. i no longer be fine with it. but then again for the washington and a lot of the western countries still living in a b s. if they can continue to stay on top of the, well, i thought a be asked to invest $1000000000.00 in cash strapped pakistan as the countries economic crisis. we're, since it comes days after pakistan secured other multi $1000000000.00 funding from gulf countries including the tar and the u. e. the transfers are part of the countries commitment to crisis stricken pakistan, which will help is on the bog received the help from the international monetary fund. it has been seeking. the organization is set to hold a meeting next week that could pave the way for more funding. meanwhile, pakistan continues to struggle with the aftermath of deadly floods which affected at least 33000000 people. and claimed the li

ahead of many new projects russia china is in the same boat. we should walk hand in hand. onfident that with the common efforts of people promoting friendship between china and russia, our humanitarian cooperation will long-lived, and our peoples will become even closer. not only cooperation in politics and economics is fashionable, everything russian music and cinema clothes and food in china have always been interested in the culture of our country, but now the real peak of popularity our correspondent pavel matveev sees confirmation of this almost every day. concert of a russian rock band in the russian cultural center of beijing on a voluntary basis, a non- professional group, admission is free for everyone , there are a lot of chinese among them excellent, very good in china, now all russian from guitar riffs to sausage and chocolate only for the mineralnye vody of the caucasus demand for the past spring has grown 15 times . but it has always been such a small-town, local story . mostly russians living in beijing came here to buy russian goods. now the linguist of russ

policy on russia and china.joined by the economist jeffrey sachs, director of the center for sustainable development at columbia university. he is president of the u.n. sustainable development solutions network and has served as adviser to three u.n. secretaries-general. his latest article is headlined, "the west's false narrative about russia and china.” he begins the article by writing, "the world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global conflicts. the relentless western narrative that the west is noble while russia and china are evil is simple-minded and extraordinarily dangerous." jeffrey sachs, welcome back to democracy now! take it from there. jeffrey: good to be with you. amy: what is the story that people in the west and around the world should understand what is happening right now with these conflicts with russia and ukraine, andith chin jeffrey: the main point, amy, is that we a

university professor serhiy radchenko, he comments on the situation in the context of russia, ukraine, the united states and china, this is how speec switches its attention from what russia is doing in ukraine and focuses on taiwan, it takes some pressure from russia and i don't think that it will necessarily push china to some formal alliance with russia, but it is obvious that the stronger the pressure of the united states on china, the greater the probability that china will try to cooperate with russia ostap, what does this visit mean for ukraine and directly for the attention that is focused on ukraine at the moment yuliya ty actually mentioned nancy the vacuum cleaner at the beginning in her column about this visit, she asked at the end of ukraine that this visit shows confrontation so it is democracy, the autocracy that the nation has spoken to, supports ukraine in this regard as well, and there were a lot of parallels. we have also heard parallels before, taiwan, ukraine, russia, china. we saw even today when i met the most stubborn people of taiwan in the city, they had masks, and with ukraine, they were

but on the other hand, he is accusing china and russia. and this is something which is self contradictory because this is not what's happening at the moment. africa is not a continent that is exclusive to anyone. it is open to the rest of the world. think about it. this is such a vast continent and with extremely good resources of all kinds of all kinds of natural resources. mid the rose and express precious minerals as well. but after centuries of western colonization, the african people are still living in poverty, most of them. and this is quite sad. and i think we don't have to go back to history. what has happened. everybody knows what's happened during africa over the last few centuries, but right now, this is what we have to face them. because after the end of the goal, i think it's africa dropped off the right of global politics, which is quite true. however, this relative of y'all did not last long. a lot of diverse demographic, social, religious, audiological, economic and political processes are unfolding that strong population

differently, i guess, look, the goal of the united states is to sever the connection between china and russia's how the severing of this connection in exchange for taiwan i don't think i don't think that um china believes that taiwan does not have it, that is, it does not he bargains for taiwan because he does not see the presence of the united states there, he says that this is our territory so that they don't do anything there we will not consider everything as ours and the fact that they, the americans, won't remove their troops from there well, i don't mean their weapons or something i don't they will refuse to sell, just the visit of pilosi, he just demonstrates that in the american environment there are completely different moods, let's say that they will not trade with taiwan to mix with the problems of, for example, russia or ukraine, and so further although i will tell you that before the war, before the beginning of the invasion, there were indeed such topics about the fact that even china will start a war at the same time as russia, that russia is attacking ukraine, china is attack

they're unrelenting, they want, they want containment, both for china and russia. that's a consequence. we have driven both china and russia into a much greater military alliance. as a consequence, john in new york, he wanted to jump in. go ahead. yeah, just we, you know, we have military bases in the region, so certainly we have the power to project. there are quite easily, i mean, of course we do have to bring a lot by ship, but we already have a lot of. busy money assets in the region. so we could fight a war. yes, we could find where we're china. it's going to be extremely destructive, but we could fight it in, in the, in the region. well, i don't know that japan. i don't know that japan and the other country and south korea that hosts are basis, want to get involved in the war in china and that, that's a really good point. let me go to martin right now. there is a, you know, the, the, the entangling alliances, the u. s. has, which is inherently dangerous. you know, if there's an attack on japan, then that's one thing. if there's an attack on australia, it's ano

both were china and russia. that's a consequence. we have driven both china and russia into a much greater military alliance. as a consequence, john in new york, he wanted to jump in. go ahead. yeah, just we, we have military bases in the region, so certainly we have the power to project. there are quite easily, i mean of course we do have to bring a lot by ship, but we already have a lot of. busy military assets in the region, so we could fight a war. yes, we could find a war with china. it's going to be extremely destructive, but we could fight it in india in the region. well, i don't know that japan. i don't know that japan and the other country and south korea that, that host are basis, want to get involved in the war in china and i, that's a really good point. let me go to martin right now that the, you know, the, the, the entangling alliances, the u. s. has, which is inherently dangerous. if there's an attack on japan, then that's one thing. if there's an attack on australia, it's another thing. but taiwan is a very different th

s. state department bashing, russia, china and the iran stanford university. and graphic i issued the report and meta, the parent company of facebook and instagram provided the necessary data to promote the narratives. the now deleted accounts, shared news articles, calling for a ban on russian tv channels. they called on central asian nations to curb chinese influence and so on. here are some details of the operation. the operation talk it russian, speak in central nation, old and says in focused on praise in american aid to central asia in criticized and russia, particularly rates foreign policy. facebook's post self and had fewer than 10 locks . it don't make 10 post gain more than 1000 reactions. it was pretty shallow stuff . photos of models doctored into profile pictures, synthetic hash tag campaigns all to help push a pentagon version of world events. of course. now facebook says this is the 1st time that they removed a foreign influence operation directed by the united states. now that's interesting, as many suspect, this is definitely not the 1st time