United in Moscow, China and Russia spurn talk of a Trump ‘reverse Nixon’

China and Russia have formed a unified front against the United States in a rebuff to speculation that US President Donald Trump could divide the two neighbours.

After talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday, the two countries slammed the “hegemony” and “unilateralism” of Trump’s America-centric foreign policy to shake up the global order.

They pledged to jointly defend the post-war multipolar world order by strengthening bilateral cooperation and pushing back against US “containment”.

Observers said the two leaders, who attended commemorations in the Russian capital of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Soviet Union, were seeking to present their countries as on the right side of history and justice – in contrast to the US.

Since returning to office, Trump has launched a global tariff war, withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, and repeatedly attacked multilateral institutions established since the second world war.

  

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