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© Sergey Guneev / SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of the SCO summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, July 3, 2024
, the Russian president has said
Moscow and Beijing are building relations based on equality and mutual respect in the interests of their people, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Putin and Xi held a lengthy bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday.
"We have repeatedly stated with good reason that Russia-China relations, our comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation, are going through the best period in their history," the Russian leader said. They are "guided by the principles of equality, mutual benefit and respect for each other's sovereignty," he added.
Our cooperation is not directed against anyone. We do not create any blocs or alliances; we are simply acting in the interests of our people.
The Chinese president in turn noted that his
regular meetings with Putin are "not just a good tradition of ours, but also the symbol of the high level that Russian-Chinese relations enjoy."The leaders agreed to enhance ties to safeguard their countries' legitimate interests, with Putin calling it a "main stabilizing factor on the international stage."
"Facing an international situation fraught with turbulence and changes, the two countries should keep upholding the original aspiration of lasting friendship, and sticking to the determination of benefiting the people," Xi added.
Putin also promised to support China's chairmanship of the SCO in 2024-2025 in "every way," calling the organization "one of the key pillars of a fair multipolar world order."
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization is bedrock of multipolar world - Putin
The SCO has been strengthening its role on the global stage, according to the Russian president
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is expanding to become a power center in a world that is evolving towards multipolarity, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Putin made the statement during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday at the SCO summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The members of the SCO account for some 20% of global GDP. The grouping was founded in 2001 by China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Iran became the newest member of the organization last year, after India and Pakistan joined in 2017.
"I would like to recall that our countries were behind the creation of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization," Putin told Xi.
The Russian leader said that with the expansion of the SCO participants pool, the organization has "strengthened its role as one of the key pillars of a fair multipolar world order."
Putin noted that Belarus is about to enter the SCO, becoming the tenth full member.
SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming said last month that with Belarusian accession to the group, the number of SCO member states will reach a "historic double-digit breakthrough."
The secretary general emphasized that after more than 20 years of development, the SCO has transformed from a regional mechanism for meetings of heads of state into a major, comprehensive international organization.
Currently, 14 countries hold SCO dialogue-partner status, allowing them to participate in the organization's specialized events at the invitation of its members.
In May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters that Algeria had applied to become a dialogue partner of the SCO. According to the minister, Laos has also submitted an application. He said both countries would be eligible for SCO membership once they have attained both dialogue-partner and observer status.
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SCO was founded on June 15, 2001 but was preceded by the Shanghai Five formed in 1996 consisting of The People's Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan. In the new structure of SCO, Uzbekistan was included. 2001 was the year that saw the beginning of the US led campaign in Afghanistan, which borders four of the six founding nations.
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“To suppress all rebellions in advance, it should not be done brutally.”
It can be an illustrationIn 1956, German Jewish philosopher Günther Anders wrote this prophetic thought:
“To suppress all rebellions in advance, it should not be done brutally. Archaic methods like Hitler's are definitely outdated.
It is enough to create a collective conditioning so powerful that the idea of rebellion will no longer even come to mind.
The best way would be to shape people from birth by limiting their innate biological abilities…
We then continue the conditioning by drastically reducing the level and quality of education, reducing it to a form of effortless activity.
An uneducated person has a limited horizon of thinking, and the more limited his thinking is - material, mediocre - the less he can rebel.
Access to knowledge should become more and more difficult and elitist...
Let the gap between people and science widen so that information aimed at the general public is anesthetized with all possible content - especially without philosophy.
Once again, we must use persuasion, not direct violence: we will broadcast en masse via television entertainment that always flatters emotions and instincts.
We will occupy our minds with what is futile and fun - incessant chatter and music, so as not to ask ourselves questions and not to trigger thinking.
Sexuality will be the most important thing - as a social anesthesia, there is nothing better. In general, the seriousness of existence should be prohibited, everything that has high value should be ridiculed, and a constant apology of lightness should be maintained, so that the euphoria of advertising and consumption becomes a valuable component of the standard of human happiness and a model of freedom.
This type of pressure on the collective will itself cause such integration that the only fear (that will need to be maintained) is exclusion from the system and thus loss of access to the material conditions necessary for happiness.
The mass human, thus produced, should be treated as he is: a product, a calf, and must be monitored as a herd should be.
Anything that can lull his brightness, his critical mind, is socially good, while anything that could wake him up must be fought, ridiculed, suffocated...
Any doctrine that challenges the system must first be defined as subversive and terrorist, and those who support it treated as public enemies.”
Do you already see the present in Günther's words?
Someone who implemented this is characterized by unearthly intelligence in the literal sense of the word. Especially when we look at the last three years of restrictions imposed on us by those you elected.
To enslave a man today, you don't need any shackles.