SpaceWar.com reports: “The presence of the leaders of Russia and North Korea alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing Wednesday was part of efforts to build an anti-Western ‘new world order’, the EU’s foreign policy chief said.
‘Looking at President Xi standing alongside the leaders of Russia, Iran, North Korea in Beijing today, these aren’t just anti-Western optics, this is a direct challenge to the international system built on rules,’ Kaja Kallas told journalists.
‘It’s not just symbolic. Russia’s war in Ukraine is being sustained by Chinese support. These are realities that Europe needs to confront now.’
Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un flanked Xi at the event to mark the end of World War II, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West.
In unprecedented scenes, Xi shook both their hands and chatted with the pair as they walked down a red carpet by Tiananmen Square, with Putin to Xi’s right and Kim to his left…”
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