Global hegemonical restructuring

Hassan El Hajj 

Source: Al Mayadeen English

The Russian delegation that accompanied Vladimir Putin on his trip to China certainly indicates the importance of this visit as it consisted of ministers and leading officers.

May 16, 2024, marks the date of Vladimir Putin’s primary visit to China after his inauguration for a fifth term as president in the Kremlin. This visit is depicted as a retort to the Chinese President Jinping Xi’s visit in March of last year. Notwithstanding the routine meetings between both presidents in different settings, such as, and not limited to, the BRICS and G20, this visit contains a specific set of macro intentions.

The content of this paper will shed light on the current and future purposes of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China alliance in the context of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and the Russia-Ukraine feud, taking into consideration a common turbulent issue, the United States of America, and its western political agenda.

The Russian delegation that accompanied Vladimir Putin on his trip to China certainly indicates the importance of this visit as it consisted of ministers and leading officers that are directly correlated to the political and economic issues concerning the Russian Federation’s hegemonical restructure. Russia and China are mutually concerned with several global matters the most important of which is the Western agenda, specifically led by the United States of America. As a critical countermeasure to said agenda, the international trade between the Russians and Chinese has seen a growth of more than double the financial statistic from a hundred and ten billion US dollars in 2019 to more than two hundred and fifty billion this year.

Progressive talks indicate a larger number north of three hundred billion in the upcoming years. Hence, the economic pressures applied by the West on the Russian Federation are coming to a realistic and statistical nullification. Considering the strengthening of the Russian-Chinese alliance, against a common adversary, it is sensible to state that their joint force of international relations will ultimately shape the course of international political and economic development, international laws, and, in the unique situations we have today, the Russia-Ukraine feud, the war on Gaza, and the contents of the African mainland. In the context of the Russia-Ukraine feud, China and Russia declared a “no limits” cooperation, in February of 2022, days before Putin pulled the trigger on the Ukrainian battlefield. Concurrently, the Chinese believe Taiwan, a target set in the sights of the Western adversary, is a key component of a global infrastructure that requires absolute protection. This indicates a reciprocal interest between both nations to displace the current international order and set a rhythm for a new world order under a common multipolar hegemony.

To conclude, it has been emphasized that the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China do intend to further progress their economic and political alliance as it is deemed necessary for them to conquer and displace a previous world order through their own righteous political agenda.

A solid documentation of cogent evidence would be that the development of the BRICS is taken heavily into account since it is evident that this coalition withholds more valuable economic merit than that of the G7, in addition to the fact that the demographic element of the BRICS is greater than that of the European mainland and the NATO alliance. Despite the intra-disputes between India and China, the BRICS is expected to be a critical factor in the global economic overtake throughout the expected hegemonical restructuring.