If carried through, it would mark the end of a quarter-century of unipolarity. This is an open challenge to the post-Cold War, U.S.-dominated world that Obama inherited and then weakened beyond imagining. Indeed, at this week’s Asian cooperation conference, Xi proposed a brand-new continental security system to include Russia and Iran (lest anyone mistake its anti-imperialist essence) and exclude America. Their enhanced partnership marks the first emergence of a global coalition against American hegemony since the fall of the Berlin wall. China and Russia together represent the core of a new coalition of anti-democratic autocracies challenging the Western-imposed, post-Cold War status quo. Putin has now turned the same tables on us. Their 1972 strategic coup fundamentally turned the geopolitical tables on Moscow. But it is the capstone of a gradual - now accelerated - Russia-China rapprochement that essentially undoes the Kissinger-Nixon achievement. To be sure, it’s not the surprise that Henry Kissinger pulled off in secret. Putin to Shanghai reprises Nixon to China. It marks a major alteration in the global balance of power. Which makes this alignment of the world’s two leading anti-Western powers all the more significant. Putin refers to eastern and southern Ukraine by the old czarist term of “New Russia.” And China’s foreign minister justifies vast territorial claims that violate maritime law by citing traditional (“nine-dash”) maps that grant China dominion over the East and South China Seas. Obama cites modern rules Russia and China, animated by resurgent nationalism, are governed by ancient maps. They see these alleged norms as forms of velvet-glove imperialism, clever extensions of a Western hegemony meant to keep Russia in its reduced post-Soviet condition and China contained by a dominant U.S. These norms and rules mean nothing to them. In May, China delivered 100,000 donated doses of Sinopharm's vaccine to Trinidad and Tobago.īeijing has not disclosed an overall figure for its vaccine donations, but Reuters calculations based on publicly available data show that at least 16.82 million doses had been delivered by early June.The Chinese and Russians can only roll their eyes. "Little was given, but much was spoken on it," Xinhua said. "We believe that every vaccine counts," the embassy said.Ĭhinese state media outlets including the Global Times and China Daily took delight at the sarcastic comments generated by the embassy tweet.
Typically, a vial contains five or six doses.
Embassy in Port of Spain said on Twitter that its donation to Trinidad and Tobago includes 80 vials of the Pfizer vaccine. President Joe Biden said last week that Washington will donate half a billion doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to the world’s poorest countries, on top of 80 million doses it has already pledged to donate by the end of June. Though Washington recently announced expanded efforts, Beijing got a head start by donating domestically made vaccines to emerging countries. To desperate governments amid a global shortage.
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