Russia has also stepped up its relations with North Korea.
Russia continues to try to build a coalition against the West, developing bilateral relations with Iran, North Korea and China.
This is stated in the report of analysts from the Institute for the Study of War.
In particular, on March 19 in Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko met with China's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming to discuss the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
The parties accused the United States and its allies of threatening the military situation in Northeast Asia and warned the United States against the spread of Cold War-style “bloc thinking.”
Russia, at the same time, is striving to strengthen relations with North Korea. It received ballistic missiles and artillery shells from North Korea in exchange for likely technological cooperation and other unspecified support, causing concern in Seoul.
In addition, the Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov met with the head of the Chinese Xinhua News Agency Fu Hua to discuss bilateral cooperation in the media sphere.
On the same day, March 19, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi had a telephone conversation with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to discuss bilateral cooperation. Raisi confirmed his readiness to help Russia stabilize the South Caucasus region, given the current events in Armenia and Azerbaijan.
“Russia's desire to strengthen political and diplomatic bilateral relations with Beijing, as well as the use of bilateral relations with Iran and North Korea for military gain, is the type of “bloc thinking” that Liu and Rudenko accused the United States and its allies of “, – note in ISW.
“The Kremlin is using the war against Ukraine to maintain bilateral relations and create a coalition of states to “balance the West,” which has long been a central aspect of Russian foreign policy,” analysts emphasized.
Recall that Putin intends to visit China in the second half of May.
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