China and Russia towards an alliance against the USA

 Russia and China seem ever closer and their bond is strengthened thanks to the common enemy, the United States. If Moscow to avoid the enlargement of the Atlantic Alliance has become a national need, for Beijing the containment of Washington on the international level becomes an even more ambitious program, because it is the clear signal to contain the USA, also using an apparently distant and without issue. strategic importance for Chinese interests. It seems that the direction taken is that of an ever closer alliance between the two superpowers, which have coincident interests in uniting against the Americans. It seems particularly significant that the first meeting in the presence, for over two years, with a foreign leader, Xi Jingping was reserved for Putin at the moment of maximum tension between Russia and the United States and perhaps on the eve of a possible invasion by the military of Moscow in Ukraine. At the basis of this increasingly intense collaboration, there is not only aversion to the United States, but also a broader convergence against popular uprisings in the name of greater guarantees in favor of rights, which have distinguished the two countries. A vision clearly opposed to Western democratic ideals, which stands as a real clash of civilizations, capable of bringing great instability to the world. Both Moscow and Beijing have been condemned several times by the West, for their undemocratic attitude, which they perpetrated with mass repression and violent struggle against dissent: for this common attitude in domestic politics towards opponents, mutual support, framed as an international link, it serves to justify their work on the world stage. For China, the proximity of Russia is also of particular significance, because Moscow recognizes the Chinese right to claim a single China, thus against the aspirations of Taiwan, which is increasingly close to the United States for obvious reasons of necessity. The official version of the progressive rapprochement of the two countries is the realization of true multilateralism, that is, an equal collaboration of the two countries to a closer alliance, which seems ever closer; however, the alliance between China and Russia can only be asymmetrical the more time goes on. There is an evident advantage of positions between Beijing and Moscow, to the full advantage of the former, both from an economic point of view, where Moscow cannot compete with Chinese productive differentiation, because it still has an economy based exclusively on natural resources, and from the point of view from a military point of view, and from a geopolitical one. The impression is that Moscow is well aware of this difference, which in the future may create considerable friction, but, at the moment, it needs to have at its side the largest country capable of opposing the United States, especially in the case of of an effective military intervention in the Ukrainian country. Of course, even economically, Moscow must guarantee itself alternative markets in the face of the possibility of incurring economic sanctions and to this end it has opened up to an increase in the quantity of gas destined for the supply of China. Although this possible alliance opens up to scenarios of great concern, it can also be read as a need for the two states to support each other simultaneously and avoid a sort of isolation, which they are already suffering from their repressive actions within their nations. International disapproval, mostly coming from the western part, but not only, is a source of great concern, especially for China and the economic repercussions that ostracism towards Beijing can produce. For Russia, the need to be able to count on alliances with other countries is very much felt and the next step could be represented by Iran, however it is a tactic that accentuates the ties with states where repression is the policy of common exercise and this it only pushes Moscow away from Europe the economic partner it needs most, in order to revive its disastrous economy, even if the energy link with the countries of the Union appears to be difficult to dissolve, due to mutual needs. It will be more worrying to see the reaction of the United States: the consequences that are likely to generate are highly worrying, not only for the Ukrainian dossier, but also for that of Taiwan and for the Iranian nuclear power itself.