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West concerned by closer Russia-China ties, top NATO general says
(News Agencies)- The United States and its Western allies are increasingly concerned about growing cooperation between Russia and China in areas of common interest, NATO's top general said on Wednesday. The Pentagon has put countering China and Russia at the centre of its strategy since 2018, even though U.S. defence spending outstrips that of Moscow and Beijing.
In 2018, China and Russia held their largest-ever joint military exercises, featuring 300,000 Russian troops.
And in 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping oversaw the launch of a three-decade pipeline project to transport natural gas from Siberia to northeast China.
Tod Wolters, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, or SACEUR, told reporters that the growing cooperation "really does suggest an emergence of a partnership of convenience".
He said the partnership was intended to advance mutual interests, "and that advancement could be to the detriment of Europe and corresponding and surrounding nations".
NATO accuses Russia of trying to destabilise the West with new nuclear weapons, cyber attacks and covert action. The European Union, many of whose states are members of NATO, sees China as a rival for influence as well as a trading partner.
Historically, relations between Russia and China, who share a land border of over 4,200 km (2,600 miles) have been marked by distrust, with Russian nationalists warning of encroaching Chinese influence in Russia's mineral-rich far east.
But Russia pivoted towards China after being punished with Western sanctions for its annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.
"We are ever so vigilant with respect to that growing cooperation," Wolters said.
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