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Western leaders on Saturday said Russia and China were seeking to "replace the existing international rules" with their own order, as Beijing backed Moscow in the Kremlin's showdown with the western military alliance, NATO.
US President Joe Biden has warned that Vladimir Putin plans an invasion of former Soviet state, Ukraine, within days.
Moscow is using the threat against Ukraine to demand a halt to NATO expansion and what it calls "Cold War" ideologies.
"For the first time we now see Beijing joining Moscow in calling on NATO to stop admitting new members," noted the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg, speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
"It is an attempt to control the fate of free nations, to rewrite the international rulebook and impose their own authoritarian models of governance," he warned.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen had stronger words, accusing Moscow of a "blatant attempt" to rewrite the global order
Western leaders worried as China joins Russia in NATO expansion row
Western leaders on Saturday said Russia and China were seeking to "replace the existing international rules" with their own order, as Beijing backed Moscow in the Kremlin's showdown with the western military alliance, NATO. US President Joe Biden has warned that Vladimir Putin plans an invasion...
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Western leaders on Saturday said Russia and China were seeking to "replace the existing international rules" with their own order, as Beijing backed Moscow in the Kremlin's showdown with the western military alliance, NATO.
US President Joe Biden has warned that Vladimir Putin plans an invasion of former Soviet state, Ukraine, within days.
Moscow is using the threat against Ukraine to demand a halt to NATO expansion and what it calls "Cold War" ideologies.
"For the first time we now see Beijing joining Moscow in calling on NATO to stop admitting new members," noted the alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg, speaking at the Munich Security Conference.
"It is an attempt to control the fate of free nations, to rewrite the international rulebook and impose their own authoritarian models of governance," he warned.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen had stronger words, accusing Moscow of a "blatant attempt" to rewrite the global order