Why China and Russia are playing up their World War II legacies

Why China and Russia are playing up their World War II legacies

Beijing and Moscow are crafting an interpretation of world affairs that directly challenges that of their rivals.

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin consolidate their strategic alliance with a global message: to challenge the Western order, to reclaim their role in the history of the twentieth century and to propose a new paradigm of power based on multipolarity. With the magnificence of the Kremlin as a scenario, the presidents mentioned sent an unequivocal message to the world: "Humanity is on the way to a new international order and we know how to guide it." …

By: Jialin Liu / Latin America 🔊 Listen to this news In 1874, the high-ranking Qing Dynasty official, Li Hongzhang, warned of a “great transformation not seen in a thousand years,” alluding to the disparity between China and the West and a serious crisis of survival. Today, the international order and the balance of power are evolving rapidly, placing the world before an unprecedented transformation in a century. The rise of emerging countries …

Unlike Orban and Fizzo, who can still maneuver between Brussels, Moscow and Washington; unlike the Central Asian countries, which can balance between Moscow and Beijing, Putin has nowhere to maneuver, no one to balance between. The game in the multipolar world ended in a dead end for Russia.As predicted back in 2022, a player enters the arena, in whose hands all the cards. They were there for a long time, but it was not enough for three bloody y…

On May 9th, my dear friend Alex McKay and I did a special broadcast about how Russia’s Victory Day parade represented not just a grand spectacle but the formal public anointment of the multipolar world. By Kit Klarenberg. Substack, May 11, 2025. Soldiers representing all the countries that were truly on the front lines of the twin battles against Nazism and colonialism during World War II marched proudly to loud cheers, while anti-imperialist le…

The game of the multipolar world ended for Russia with a dead end. China enters the arena - Global Happenings

Thus, the parade in Moscow and in general the visit of the XI CINPIC (or Dinpin, under the new Ukrainian spelling) recorded political reality: Russia is a vassal of China, a satellite country that exists exclusively in the orbit of his older brother. Unlike Orban and Fitzo, which can still maneuver between Brussels, Moscow and Washington; Unlike Central Asia, which can balance between Moscow and Beijing, Putin has no place for maneuvering, there…