Russia and China's announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities...
Authored by Pepe Escobar: Vladimir
Putin got straight to the point. At the opening of his one hour and
fourteen minute video conversation with Xi Jinping on 15 December, he
described Russia-China relations as “an example of genuine inter-state
cooperation in the 21st century.”
Their myriad levels of
cooperation have been known for years now – from trade, oil and gas,
finance, aerospace and the fight against Covid-19, to the progressive
interconnection of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasia
Economic Union (EAEU).
But now the stage was set for the
announcement of a serious counter-move in their carefully coordinated
ballet opposing the relentless Hybrid War/Cold War 2.0 combo deployed by
Empire.
As Assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Yuri
Ushakov succinctly explained, Putin and Xi agreed to create an
“independent financial structure for trade operations that could not be
influenced by other countries.”