“Until now, the general assumption has been what we see Russia and China are a pair of countries that are essentially working together but they don't like each other. They work together because they feel obligated to work together. But that assumption might not be valid anymore. I think what changed is that both countries have come to some sort of a realisation that actually the world restructured in such a way in their perspective that they are on one side and the West is on the other. It's interesting to see some of the things they are talking about. So we have recently seen the Russians talking about AUKUS. This is a deal that has nothing to do with the Russians and it's not an area of strategic interest for Russians at all. Yet, we have a number of quite senior Russian officials who say that this is a bad thing for the world.”
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