Correspondent has more on those developments. If the west wants to stop russias advances in ukraine, they know here is one place they know here is one place they can do that. Now, beijing is not supplying moscow with weapons, but the west believes it is supplying russia with components that it can use in its war machine. The us has a raft of new sanctions at the ready, this time to target chinese banks. So president xi has a decision to make. For more on that relationship, i spoke to a former Us Ambassador to china from 2011 to 2014. Vladimir putin really wanted to play up Vladimir Putin really wanted to play up the significance of this meeting with xi jinping play up the significance of this meeting with xijinping in china, and he said that he and xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xijinping xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xi jinping sees xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xijinping sees it that way . You think xi jinping sees it that way . You think xi jinping
If the west wants to stop russian advances in ukraine here is one place they can do that. Asian is not supplying moscow with weapons but the west believes it is supplying russia with components that it can use in its war machine. The us has a raft of new sanctions at the ready to target chinese banks so president xi has a decision to make. Live now to gary locke, former Us Ambassador to china from 2011 to 2014. Putin really wanted to play up the significance of their deepening partnership and said he and xi are as close as brothers. Do you think xi sees it that way . Certainly china wants to form closer relations with russia simply because they want a Strong Partnership in opposition to the United States and the western allies. Especially given the stance of the United States towards china in terms of tariffs and restrictions on exports of high tech goods, semiconductors and machinery to make these things. And of course our resistance and pushback on their activities around the taiwan
withdrawn from south korea and japan, they would have to be housed somewhere in the united states where there would be no burden sharing and no contributions from seoul and tokyo. the trump administration has also given up on support for broad-based norms and values. it withdraw from the human rights council ceding the field to others. trump s tariffs have rocked the free trade system. this week the administration reversed the long-standing u.s. position that israeli settlements in the west bank violate international law. french president macron was criticized for his statement that nato is experianing brain death. he pointed out trump s policy on syria was undertaken with no coordination with the nato members. europe s interest in the middle east are potentially greater than washington s, refugees
right now, what is happening particularly today with china and russia scoring deals in the middle of this normandy stuff happening. it s a little discombobulating, isn t it? i wouldn t be too worried about that. the china russian alliance neil: are you worried this is something we ought to watch because of the trade frustrations, we have to watch china now, they might have given up on the united states? this is a sign of the new times. it s helpful for putin and xi to show the world that they have other options than the system that the western powers put in place since 1945. i think in the real world, those institutions, the big institutions, the free trade system, the way financial services works, on the whole, it works in an open and transparent way.
the great fear from very senior officials who were very pro american is that donald trump wants to do nothing less than rewrite or even destroy the western alliance as it exists. you know, perhaps with the idea that it doesn t serve the united states, perhaps with the idea that it can be better done, but there was an enormous amount of nervousness that the fundamental stability and structure of the postwar era, which was built on things like nato, you know, the international institutions, the bretten wood system, the free trade system, all of that was under attack, ironically not so much from putin, that they expected, but from the architect of this order, the united states in the form of donald trump. yeah, fareed, that s exactly right and i think richard also has it exactly right. look, as has been said, those who forget history are condemned