The Growing Russia/China Alliance
By Tom Olago
Russia and China have long embraced communistic and socialist agendas, so they aren’t exactly the strangest of bedfellows. However, recent developments indicate that the two nations are enhancing their levels of co-operation to an extent that is becoming alarming to the West and the rest of the ‘free world’.
Russia and China have long embraced communistic and socialist agendas, so they aren’t exactly the strangest of bedfellows. However, recent developments indicate that the two nations are enhancing their levels of co-operation to an extent that is becoming alarming to the West and the rest of the ‘free world’.
It’s not just the sheer power and scale of these two countries’ combined military resources that is causing concern. Rather, what is becoming of utmost concern are the increasing indications that these countries seem to be working on a mutually beneficial series of plans.
Plans to take full advantage of their combined might to achieve by force where diplomacy is either unfavorable, or simply too tedious for either country to bother with.
The foreign ministers of the two countries (Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov) recently met and vowed to further coordination on international affairs. Both countries hold similar or identical positions on many levels: both regional and international issues as well as cooperation in United Nations matters.
The foreign ministers of the two countries (Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov) recently met and vowed to further coordination on international affairs. Both countries hold similar or identical positions on many levels: both regional and international issues as well as cooperation in United Nations matters.
However, these two nations seem to be leveraging each other’s strengths in order to achieve seemingly sinister goals for individual and mutual benefit.
Reports state that Chinese troops are currently being ferried to Syria, to join with the Russian forces in the Latakia region before teaming up with the Syrian regime forces - all in an apparent effort to allow President Bashar al-Assad to stay in power.
Reports state that Chinese troops are currently being ferried to Syria, to join with the Russian forces in the Latakia region before teaming up with the Syrian regime forces - all in an apparent effort to allow President Bashar al-Assad to stay in power.
Other reports indicate that Chinese J-15 fighter bombers would shortly join the Russian air campaign that was launched last week and take off from the Chinese Liaoning-CV-16 aircraft carrier, which recently reached Syrian shores.
Perhaps the risk of taking on the West and its allies is Putin’s motivation in seek co-operation with China on this Syrian mission? It has been suggested that China would benefit by demonstrating its military muscle to the West, and particularly the United States.
Perhaps the risk of taking on the West and its allies is Putin’s motivation in seek co-operation with China on this Syrian mission? It has been suggested that China would benefit by demonstrating its military muscle to the West, and particularly the United States.
By allying itself with the Asad/Russian/Iranian political and military axis, China is able to tilt the balance of power towards Russia and against the United States.
Granted that in the Syria scenario, both China and Russia seem to have another common interest in keeping Muslim insurgents out of their countries, but this mutual interest seems to be a minor one in the larger scheme of things.
Another school of thought concludes that “…this turn of events has a highly detrimental effect on Israel’s strategic and military position. It also strengthens Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his determination to turn the nuclear deal concluded in July into a tool for isolating the US politically, militarily and economically in the Middle East, rather than a milestone on the road to a breakthrough in ties with Iran, as the Obama administration had hoped”.
In other words, this development weakens both the United States and Israel strategically and militarily, while strengthening Iran, Russia and China. Just the end-game recipe prophesied in the book of Ezekiel 38, where in the last days Israel will be attacked by a conglomerate of nations, led by Russia and Iran (Magog and Persia).
Granted that in the Syria scenario, both China and Russia seem to have another common interest in keeping Muslim insurgents out of their countries, but this mutual interest seems to be a minor one in the larger scheme of things.
Another school of thought concludes that “…this turn of events has a highly detrimental effect on Israel’s strategic and military position. It also strengthens Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his determination to turn the nuclear deal concluded in July into a tool for isolating the US politically, militarily and economically in the Middle East, rather than a milestone on the road to a breakthrough in ties with Iran, as the Obama administration had hoped”.
In other words, this development weakens both the United States and Israel strategically and militarily, while strengthening Iran, Russia and China. Just the end-game recipe prophesied in the book of Ezekiel 38, where in the last days Israel will be attacked by a conglomerate of nations, led by Russia and Iran (Magog and Persia).
According to one Bible scholar: “What's very interesting to note here is that for the first time in 2,500 years, Russia and Iran are now working together, as partners.” China on the other hand, is prophesied to one day lead “the Kings of the East” in a battle intended to destroy Israel (Revelation 16).
While it is still unclear if China will take a more active role or stay in the background to support Russian troops, the presence of such Chinese military forces in the region marks a dramatic shift for a nation that has mainly relied on it's economic power to influence the Middle East.
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