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Sino-Russian Treaty Challenges U.S. Col. Stanislav LunevThe West's worst Cold War nightmare became a reality Monday when Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Red China counterpart, Jiang Zemin, signed the first post-Soviet treaty of "friendship and cooperation" in 30 years. This document formalized 10 years of growing strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing based on the intention of both governments to challenge American international position and influence. In a joint statement, Putin and Jiang expressed hope for a "just and rational new international order" to reflect their concept of a "multipolar" world. The treaty comes amid the two nations' mounting concern over a U.S.-dominated "unipolar" world and ongoing attempts by Moscow and Beijing to draw more nations into the Russian-Chinese axis. The "friendship and cooperation treaty" formalized Russian-Chinese collaboration on foreign and defense policy matters. From now on, Moscow and Beijing will have a common approach in opposition to the main U.S. interests, notably:
As a result of previous cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, there is no more supervision over the proliferation of Iraq's nuclear arsenal, and Baghdad is moving to restore its capabilities for amassing weapons of mass destruction, which can easily be directed against America's allies in the Middle East. Officially, the treaty stressed that the two countries are not forming a military pact. "The military and military-technical cooperation between the two countries … is not directed against third countries," the treaty proclaimed. However, this is only the official explanation of the treaty between people who never follow their international obligations and commitments, and lie to the world in the same way they lie to their own people. As NewsMax.com reported on June 28, according to Beijing's view of the treaty, when one of the parties to this treaty "experiences military aggression," the other signatory state should, when requested, "provide political, economic, and military support and launch joint attacks against the invading forces." This is exactly what Chinese communists and Russian "democrats" want from their new treaty, which could support their anti-American ambitions. It is known that Red China considers as its own sovereign territory not only Taiwan, but most of the international waters of the South China Sea and practically all islands in that sea as well. Beijing also is already involved in territorial disputes with a dozen neighboring countries including Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, India, and others that have the bad luck to be near neighbors of Communist China. There is no doubt that, by using a treaty with "democratic" Russia, Beijing will dramatically increase its political and military pressure over not only Taiwan but also its neighboring countries, especially in the favorable resolution of territorial disputes. As a result of this development, the danger of military conflict with U.S. involvement will grow very quickly, and escalation of tension in the Western Pacific could become a reality in the near future. As another result of this treaty, Russia and China will increase their collaboration against American and allied interests by continuing the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical warfare technologies, especially nuclear missile weapons. There is no doubt that Moscow and Beijing have determined that despite their international obligations, they will support proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in an effort to challenge and restrict America's abilities to project U.S. power and deploy a forward presence abroad. Increased weapons sales to North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba and other rogue states will provide these countries with new capabilities to undermine American interests worldwide. Russia and China are heavily involved in proliferation efforts not only for the money involved, but also and mostly because they know that when many rogue nations have nuclear and missile weapons, the U.S. military, limited by arms control agreements, will not be able to exercise its policy of nuclear deterrence. The list of advantages for Russia and Red China from the new treaty could go on for many pages, but all of them are at the expense of America and the entire free world. The new closer relations between Moscow and Beijing will, without any doubt, strengthen the authoritarian tendencies now evident in Russia, as well as increase the possibility that the Kremlin will become much more aggressive in its policies both internationally and domestically. This treaty will also strengthen the position of the Chinese communist leadership in their country, and will provide them with new possibilities to increase and extend repression over their own people in an effort to preserve the absolute power of their totalitarian regime. The new collaboration between Russia'’s "democrats" and Chinese communists will play a significant role in establishing and developing anti-democratic forces not only in their own countries but also in any other nation seeking to join the Moscow-Beijing axis. In other words, as a result of the new Russian-Chinese treaty our world will be less safe than it was, and could easily become even more dangerous very soon. There is no doubt that this treaty is the most serious challenge to the U.S. since the Cold War, and Washington will have to work very hard if it really wants to protect America, its friends and allies from the major threats of our day.
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