RUSSIA, CHINA VOW CLOSER TIES TO FEND OFF U.S.Byline: Candice Hughes Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Russia and China pledged Saturday to create a stronger new partnership aimed at countering the influence of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . The two longtime rivals declared their intentions to forge closer military and economic ties in a communique at the end of Chinese Premier Li Peng's three-day visit to Moscow. Russian newspapers hailed the ``strategic partnership.'' The respected daily Izvestia called it ``our reply to the United States'' and Nezavisimaya Gazeta Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Независимая Газета; "independent newspaper") is a Russian language daily newspaper, published by Izvestiya. said ``it will entail changes of a geopolitical ge·o·pol·i·tics n. (used with a sing. verb) 1. The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation. 2. a. nature.'' ``Moscow and Beijing form a multi-polar world,'' proclaimed another major daily, Segodnya. The Soviet collapse left the world with one superpower - the United States - and Russia's post-Cold War foreign policy has been aimed at diluting American domination of world affairs Noun 1. world affairs - affairs between nations; "you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television" international affairs affairs - transactions of professional or public interest; "news of current affairs"; "great affairs of state" . Moscow strongly opposes the eastward expansion of NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. , for example, and is casting about for counterweights to the U.S.-dominated alliance. The communique indicated it had found one in China, once Moscow's bitter rival in the socialist world. Russia and China are determined to create an ``equal partnership . . . aimed at strategic interaction in the 21st century'' and ``building a multi-polar world,'' it said. Moscow is also seeking new customers for its arms and technical expertise, and China, with its booming economy and 2,700-mile border with Russia, is a logical market. |
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