The Acceleration of the Making of the New Multi-polar World: China’s Strategy at Its Best

After the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis (December 2021–February 2022) China’s strategy accelerated dramatically, and so has been the transition to a multi-polar world. Two major events occurred during this acceleration phase of the China–Russia diplomacy that sealed the transition to the multi-polar world, meaning that the two countries gave to this movement its irreversible character: first, the Joint Memorandum of February 2, 2022, published a few weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and after the US refused in December 2021 to discuss Russia’s proposal to set up a new security framework in Europe, based upon the ‘principle of indivisible security’, and, second, the Joint Memorandum of March 21, 2023, preceded by two articles authored by Xi Jinping (published in Russia in Russian) and by Vladimir Putin (published in Chinese in China) on the occasion of their 3-day meeting in Moscow. If the West had still some doubts about the strength of the China–Russia strategic partnership, this meeting should have put an end to their illusions. The acceleration did not stop after March 21, 2023. On the contrary, it gained momentum, as the China–Russia partnership inevitably reacted to the extraordinary sequence of strategic mistakes the US implemented for maintaining its domination over the world.