{"id":264680,"date":"2017-07-05T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=264680"},"modified":"2020-11-22T09:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T14:38:33","slug":"putin-xi-message-to-trump-us-unipolar-world-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/putin-xi-message-to-trump-us-unipolar-world-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Xi message to Trump: US unipolar world is over"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Finally!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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The US’ strategy has been to isolate Russia internationally. Evidently, it is Washington that is becoming more isolated on the global stage. This week in the run-up to the G20 summit in Germany, the reverse in fortunes could not be more glaring.<\/p>\n

While North Korea was openly defying Washington with a breakthrough ballistic missile test, and US President Donald Trump was embroiled in his usual juvenile tweeting antics, Russia and China\u2019s leaders were proudly consolidating their\u00a0strategic alliance\u00a0for a new multipolar global order.<\/p>\n

Western media won\u2019t acknowledge as much, but the meeting this week in Moscow between Putin and Xi Jinping was of historical importance. We are witnessing a global transition in power. And for the common good.<\/p>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping bond through an apparent deep sense of mutual respect and wisdom about the political challenges facing today\u2019s world. The two leaders have met on more than 20 occasions over the past four years. President Xi referred to Russia as China\u2019s foremost ally and said that in a topsy-turvy world the friendship between the two was a source of countervailing stability.<\/p>\n

On the breaking news of North Korea\u2019s successful test launch of its first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), both Putin and Xi called for calm restraint. By contrast, US President Trump took to Twitter to taunt Kim Jong-Un. \u201cDoes this guy not have anything better to do with his life?\u201d said Trump in words that could apply more pertinently to the American president.<\/p>\n

Then the US and its South Korea ally also launched their ballistic missiles in a military drill aimed as a show of strength to Pyongyang. Kim Jung-Un responded that the ICBM was a \u201cgift for the American bastards\u201d on their Fourth of July Independence Day holiday and that there would more such gifts on the way.<\/p>\n

Rather than escalating tensions, Putin and Xi put forward the eminently reasonable proposal that North Korea should freeze its missile tests and the US should likewise halt its military exercises on the Korean peninsula. All sides must convene in negotiations with a commitment to non-violence and without preconditions to strive for a comprehensive settlement to the decades-old dispute.<\/p>\n

The contrast in Putin and Xi\u2019s dignified, intelligent response with that of Trump\u2019s petulance is clear proof of Russia and China showing real global leadership, whereas the Americans are just part of the problem.<\/p>\n

But the Korean drama was only one illustration this week of how American ambitions of unipolar dominance have become redundant.<\/p>\n

The G20 summit prelude of Putin hosting Xi in Moscow was followed by the Chinese president making a state visit to Germany on Wednesday two days before the gathering in Hamburg. Xi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel reportedly signed new trade deals between the world\u2019s two leading export economies.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelations between China and Germany are at their historic best,\u201dsaid Michael Clauss, Germany\u2019s ambassador to Beijing. \u201cThe economic and political dynamic from a German perspective is moving toward the east.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of significance too was news this week the European Union is preparing to finalize a major trade pact with Japan.<\/p>\n

It is also significant that Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on China and Russia to help mediate the Korean crisis immediately following Pyongyang\u2019s ICMB test launch.<\/p>\n

Evidently, Japan, despite being an ally of Washington, is reaching out to a multilateral solution as proposed by Moscow and Beijing.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/395367-putin-xi-message-trump\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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