The Chinese-Russian rapprochement is above all based on a rejection of democratic values. However, shortly afterwards, he argued: “China and Russia have been moving closer to each other. “The rivalry between Washington and Beijing is unfolding on many fronts, but it doesn’t mean this will replicate the bipolar world of the Cold War,” he wrote on March 29. But Russia and China acting toward the same objectives has seemingly been on Borrell’s mind of late.

Granted, his critique of Moscow and Beijing was in direct reference to the UN Security Council. China is keen to protect its strategic interests in the country and has called the coup ‘a major government reshuffle,’ while Russia insists that it is a purely ‘domestic matter.’” Writing in his “A Window on the World” blog on Sunday, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell stated : “It comes as no surprise that Russia and China are blocking the attempts of the UN Security Council, for example to impose an arms embargo against Myanmar.

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