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Russia and China are hell bent on building a ‘grotesque alliance’ of anti-West countries, an expert has warned.<\/p>\n
MEP Daniel Hannan has noted that battle lines are being drawn up as ill-liberal regimes looked to take advantage of the West “losing ground.”<\/p>\n
Vladimir Putin has overseen Russia’s drift into China’s orbit following the international isolation and economic shocks that met his invasion of Ukraine. <\/p>\n
China meanwhile is in an increasingly open struggle to unseat the United States as the World’s leading economic and military power.<\/p>\n
Read More <\/strong> US risks losing ‘global hegemon’ title as Putin and Xi try to ‘shift balance’<\/strong><\/p>\n Writing in the Telegraph, Mr Hannan declared: “Hence the grotesque coalition that the Russians and Chinese are assembling. Its members have next to nothing in common.<\/p>\n “Some are Marxists, some Islamists, but all resent what they see as Western, liberal arrogance, and exult in the belief that a reckoning is nigh.”<\/p>\n He added: “If Putin manages to hang on to conquered territory in Ukraine, it will be seen as a definitive defeat for the West, a Suez-level reversal, inciting not only a Chinese grab for Taiwan, but a series of unrelated conflicts.”<\/p>\n Vladimir Putin recently travelled to Beijing to mark a celebration in China marking a decade since the launch of the country’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> Putin has been strengthening ties with Chinese leader Xi Jinping following the invasion of Ukraine which left Moscow frozen out of Western markets and institutions.<\/p>\n China has allowed Russia some international cover over the conflict in Ukraine by refusing to overtly condemn the invasion, choosing to instead remain neutral.<\/p>\n Beijing has opened up much-needed financial links to Russia which have helped the Kremlin keep the economy afloat amid heavy Western sanctions.<\/p>\n Some analysts argue that the ever-growing closer ties between Russia and China have the former as the more junior party, with Putin increasingly dependent on the goodwill of Xi.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Vladimir-Putin-and-Xi-Jinping-recently-meet-to-set-direction-of-Russo-China-ties-5027290.jpg?r=1698049848725\")
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