China and Russia declare “no limits” to their plan to rival US power - BBC News

China and Russia have proclaimed a deep strategic partnership to balance the global influence of the United States.

China’s President Xi Jingping welcomed President Putin to Beijing on the opening day of the Winter Olympics.

In a joint statement, the two countries said that friendship between their countries had no limits. They announced plans to collaborate in many areas including space, climate change, artificial intelligence and control of the internet.

It’s the clearest statement so far of Russia and China’s resolve to work together to build a new international order to rival the United States, based on their own interpretations of human rights and democracy.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Robin Brant in Beijing.

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[samirmuhammad]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend". I'm not surprised they would forge an alliance.

[rwksasc]

It’s a natural progression for the bullied to team up to take on the bullies.

[diegn]

Different from Russia, a U.S vs China militar conflict would be very unlikely... Their economies are deeply connected (american factories in China, and chinese detain lots of U.S. bonds). A conflict between the two would cause a severe economic impact on both (as for the rest of the world)

[JC-spov]

Damn I though boycott meant not sending the team. Bruh who gives a shit if Biden or Johnson doesn't go to China for a few hours.

[jona_KardCiv]

China and Russia have already had joint military exercises for a few years now. China is the majority stakeholder of the Nordstream pipeline. And China is already Russia's best customer.

[destynphyre]

Not until the love of power is overcome by the power of love, will we know peace.

[kxnppoj]

What the woman who appeared at 3:05 said was not at all what you translated, in words she expressed the excitement and joy of being part of this opening ceremony off the field. The BBC cannot produce even one unbiased report on China

[leewolf]

Oh who could of possibly predicted this. Oh yeah, literally everyone except our governments.

[qifanhu]

At 3:04 what the woman said "Zhong zai can yu" in Chinese is totally not the same meaning that BBC has translated into. That phrase means that "At least we are a member of Olympic" rather than "At least we tried". Do not mislead people with wrong details.

[UCanOnlyChangeU]

This whole situation seems like it’s about to go from bad to worse 😞

Fasten your seatbelts everyone because we are about to go on a very bumpy ride 😩

[RicardoGonzalez-vtre]

Like brothers, if one has a problem the other one gives him a hand

[benchang]

I always knew this would happen but skeptics doubted their potential alliance due to regional conflicting geopolitical goals. It was only a matter of time as the world becomes increasingly polarized.

[Yelladog]

The good people don't want war we want peace and prosperity for all

[fenijean]

The nature of reality is being changed before our eyes. What a time to be alive!!!

[tanzine]

Yea it's their intention but in which exact statement did they say this? Your title vaguely implied that they said this to paint a very different picture of their character.

[Paragon._.]

Those who learn history are helpless but to watch it repeat, and those who don’t learn are doomed to repeat it

[heybabycometobutthead]

Russia and China: stop accepting new members to your defense alliance, meanwhile we will be expanding ours without limits, ok? 😂

[utzchti]

Ни будет ни какой войны! Мир, дружба, всех людей на земле!

[gliang]

Is it a surprise? In the last 8 years, Russia had undergone enormous reforms to update their finance system, so that potential US sanctions could not have major negative impact on them. China is working on this front too.

[ebenezerwheezer]

We'll see how far these two get together before shit hits the fan just like the Munich agreement 🤣🤣🤣🤣