The New Wars between America, Russia, and China

In words laden with Sarcasm, Russian President Vladimir Putin had responded to the accusation of US President Joe Biden.  Biden depicted Putin as a killer and emptied-soul. The Russian leader said that Biden tries to drop what is within him on the others but he wished Biden to be in good health.

The Russian President added that we are usually seeing in others what is in ourselves as we think them similar to us and judge them accordingly. He continued to say that he and Biden know each other very well but enquired how can he respond to Biden? “I had better say to Biden that I wish you good health without irony”, Putin said.

It is worth noting Moscow had summoned her ambassador to Washington for consultations about the future of the Russian-US relationships. Strategists consider that calling of the Russian ambassador that way is a rare event in Russian diplomacy, despite Moscow's described it as a summons.

On the other hand, Biden’s statements to well-famed announcer George Stephanopoulos on ABC TV over  Wednesday interview as a direct question exceeds diplomatic traditions especially those that regulate relations between the two countries.

However, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin paid his first visit to some Asian countries since he took office on January 22. He landed in  Asian capitals in an attempt to form varied alliances aiming to face rising China.

Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State joined Austin in Tokyo and Seoul where they held talks with their counterparts of both Japan and South Korea respectively. The two US secretaries hope to form a reliable deterrent to face China.

Blinken told reporters accompanying him that it is a matter of alliances and partnerships. He added that this matter linked to strengthening US power. He mentioned that while the USA strived to fight Jihadists in the Middle East, China sought to modernize her army at a fast pace so the competitiveness of the USA has eroded.

This trend came in a new international environment which becomes more complicated and ambiguous than ever.

Power, as an old concept is I assured many times,  has no longer the same meaning. Electronic attacks or viral weapons launched from unknown sources suffice to demolish everything.

Biden administration perceives very well that China now then Russia later will emerge, in this complicated environment, as two powers that have the self-assurance and may use non-conventional and more destructive weapons.

According to statements made by the former French president, Russia continues to destabilize Western democracies through manipulating social media networks or promulgate misinformation.

Russia does this through private effective parties, direct services, or agents.   The worst of all is that the western nations have some defenses to confront the Russian attacks and they have no effective enforcements to strengthen their technical defenses and define the sources of attacks so in many cases they remain unknown sources.

Problems between China and the USA deepen due to the Sino-Russian rapprochement. Within the last two years, China became the major trade partner with Russia as it replaced the European Union (EU). China acquired 15% of Russia’s foreign trade.  The volume of trade between the two countries rose by 31.5% to amount to $87.4 billion. Russia’s exports to China amounted to $ 39 billion, meanwhile, imports amounted to $ 48.4 billion.

Strategic observers monitor Sino-Russian efforts to dwarf the US dollar or even expel it from trade dealings.

Over the past years, Putin said to Xi Jiping, his Chinese counterpart, as he gifted him a hand-made pot containing natural honey, that it is better if he pays for the pot. But Xi said that he has no rubbles on him at that moment to pay for the pot. Putin told him that he should pay in the Chinese currency.

The banter of the two presidents carries a direct sign of the serious ongoing discussions between China and Russia to gradually convert to use the national currencies in their dealings.

Those all trends foretell more forms of wars that are never previously known to humankind’s international system but not be tolerated by any system in the post-Corona era.

Contributed by Ahmed Moamar