{"id":1411032,"date":"2022-03-30T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411032"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:30:24","slug":"china-welcomes-russian-foreign-minister-to-discuss-building-fair-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-welcomes-russian-foreign-minister-to-discuss-building-fair-world-order\/","title":{"rendered":"China Welcomes Russian Foreign Minister to Discuss Building \u2018Fair World Order\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-welcomes-russian-foreign-minister-to-discuss-building-fair-world-order%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411032&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China on Wednesday for a meeting ostensibly focused on Afghanistan, but touted by Russian media as a landmark in the new axis of global power formed by the two authoritarian nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lavrov is officially in China to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1429377\"><span>attend<\/span><\/a><span> the Third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan\u2019s Neighboring Countries, which begins on Thursday. Other attendees include Tajikistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Russia\u2019s state-controlled <\/span><span>RT.com<\/span><span> on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/552953-lavrov-china-trip-afghanistan\/\">played<\/a> up the meeting between Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi as the main event of Lavrov\u2019s trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUnlike most Western nations, and some Asian countries, Beijing has refused to condemn Moscow and rejected calls to impose sanctions,\u201d RT.com sniffed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20457650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239620057.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This screengrab taken on March 30, 2022 from video by state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) via AFPTV shows\u00a0<\/em><em>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during his first visit to China since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, at their meeting in Huangshan in China\u2019s Anhui province. \u2013 Moscow\u2019s top diplomat landed in the eastern city of Huangshan early on March 30 for a series of meetings about the future of Afghanistan. (STR\/CCTV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Lavrov borrowed a page from Chinese propaganda by denouncing the U.S. and Europe for cynically and hypocritically using first Afghanistan, and then Ukraine, as pawns to enforce Western ideals of human rights and democracy:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcac FM Sergey Lavrov during talks with FM of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Tunxi, China: Those who tried to make Afghanistan centre of the world politics, now try to make <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Afghanistan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Afghanistan<\/a>. And we all understand what it is about. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y13GFmzuXu\">pic.twitter.com\/y13GFmzuXu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MFA Russia \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@mfa_russia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1509109149791133702?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Lavrov and Wang both said their meeting would help Russia and China create a new, \u201cfair\u201d world order to replace the waning American Century and fading post-WWII European alliance, according to RT:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>The neighboring countries will work to achieve \u201ca multipolar, fair, and democratic world order,\u201d Lavrov said after arriving in Tunxi, a city in China\u2019s eastern inland Anhui Province, on Wednesday. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted a photo of the two ministers greeting each other with an elbow bump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beijing has argued that economic restrictions disrupt world trade and will not resolve the conflict. Officials insist only dialogue and diplomacy can lead to peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>TASS quoted Wang as saying that despite \u201cnew challenges\u201d to the ties between the two nations, \u201cthe will of both sides to develop bilateral relations has become even stronger.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span>The minister said this month that China\u2019s relations with Russia is \u201cone of the most crucial bilateral relationships in the world,\u201d and hailed the friendship between the pair as \u201cironclad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>RT.com slipped a little by referring to the invasion of Ukraine as an \u201cattack\u201d \u2013 the regime of dictator Vladimir Putin requires Russians to refer to the conflict as a \u201cspecial military operation,\u201d never an attack, war, or invasion \u2013 but dutifully justified it as Russia\u2019s understandable reaction to \u201ca seven-year standoff over Kiev\u2019s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/what-are-minsk-agreements-ukraine-conflict-2022-02-21\/\"><span>Minsk Accords<\/span><\/a><span> were a \u201croadmap\u201d for peacefully resolving the conflict between Ukraine, Russia, and Russia-backed insurgents in the eastern Donbas region. All three parties were accused of violating the accords in various ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Moscow Times<\/span><\/i> <span>on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2022\/03\/30\/russian-fm-hails-china-as-part-of-emerging-just-world-order-a77144\">quoted<\/a> Lavrov being even more explicit about the new world order, and seemingly accepting Russia\u2019s position as China\u2019s junior partner in the endeavor:<\/span> <span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>U.S. officials have accused China of signaling \u201cwillingness\u201d to provide military and economic aid to Russia, while President Joe Biden has compared the invasion of Ukraine to China\u2019s crushing of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But on Wednesday, Lavrov painted a picture of a new world order, saying the world was \u201cliving through a very serious stage in the history of international relations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe, together with you, and with our sympathizers will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order,\u201d Lavrov said in a video released by the Russian Foreign Ministry ahead of a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>Moscow Times <\/span><\/i><span>noted that Chinese state media has been curiously quiet about the Wang-Lavrov meeting at press time, beyond publishing a few recycled quotes from Chinese officials about how \u201cChina-Russia cooperation has no limits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Deutsche Welle<\/span> <span>(DW) saw China and Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2022\/03\/30\/russian-fm-hails-china-as-part-of-emerging-just-world-order-a77144\">bonding<\/a> over their opposition to Western sanctions, with Wang offering China\u2019s opposition to the massive sanctions imposed on Russia after its attack on Ukraine, and over Afghanistan, which could become something of a pilot project for the alleged order created by Beijing and Moscow. Last week, Wang paid his first visit to Kabul since the Taliban stormed Afghanistan and seized power in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China also has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/08\/19\/china-taliban-afghanistans-minerals\/\"><span>lucrative mining interests<\/span><\/a><span> in Afghanistan, while Russia has a motherlode of bad memories after its brutal and frustrating occupation of the country in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CBS News<\/span><span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/another-russian-quagmire-putin-and-the-shadow-of-afghanistan\/\">suggested<\/a> on Sunday that Russia might hope to banish the ghosts of the Eighties and restore some lost national pride by teaming up with China to exert influence over Afghanistan, potentially developing a political narrative that the new China-Russia world order was able to succeed where the United States disastrously failed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China on Wednesday for a meeting ostensibly focused on Afghanistan, but touted by Russian media as a landmark in the new axis of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}