Russia's turn to East hastened by collapse of neoliberal ideas

By Victor Larin

LAST December, Wang Yi, then a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, state councilor and minister of foreign affairs, told a symposium on Chinese diplomacy that, for both the world and China, 2022 was critical in bridging the past and the future. For Russia, this year has also become critical, too. Its hopes for amicable resolution of contradictions with the West have collapsed.