SCO Deputy Secretary General Logvinov: The West is dragging China into a hybrid war unleashed against Russia
Deputy Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Grigory Logvinov believes that Western countries have unleashed a full-scale information war against Russia. At the same time, other member states of the organization are beginning to be drawn into the media confrontation, primarily China, which is considered a strategic geopolitical adversary in the West.
- the diplomat believes and adds that the situation can be characterized by the old English saying "and the pen will be your sword," reports «РИА Новости».
Loginov noted that ever since its creation in 2001, the SCO has become "the object of openly hostile comments in the Western media." Every year this antagonism on the part of the Western mass media only intensified. The information war of the West against Russia and other countries of the Shanghai association entered a new wave after the SCO and the CSTO supported the legitimate government of Kazakhstan during the unrest in the republic in January of this year.
The diplomat recalled that the problem of information counteraction was identified in the final protocol at the consultations of the information services of the ministries of foreign affairs of the member states in April this year. The document specifically notes that the SCO members need to "pay attention to the problem of counteracting fake information."
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the consequences of Western countries' hybrid war against Russia would be felt by everyone without any exceptions. According to Lavrov, the Russian leadership took all the necessary steps to avoid a direct confrontation.
- added the head of the foreign policy department of the Russian Federation.
The leaders of the anti-Russian Western coalition do not hide the fact that they are waging a hybrid war against Russia, motivating its beginning by the need to “protect the sovereignty of Ukraine.” Back in late February, US President Joe Biden said that Washington had "two options: start a third world war" or impose large-scale sanctions against Russia. In July, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said Europe "doesn't want war with Russia" and economic sanctions are the main response to the fighting in Ukraine.
China has not supported anti-Russian sanctions and is strengthening its strategic partnership with Russia, despite constant pressure from the Western coalition. Against the backdrop of aggravated relations with the United States over Taiwan, Washington and NATO allies openly call Beijing their strategic adversary. In such a situation, the opposition of the SCO and other political and economic associations of independent countries to Western pressure, including in the information space, reaches a new significant level.
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