Moscow’s top military official is taking part in the Xiangshan regional security conference
The US and its allies are deliberately eroding global security and risking a nuclear war as they seek to defend their hegemony, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Monday.
Russia and China, meanwhile, are demonstrating a model of cooperation based on equality and agreement not to enhance their own national security at the expense of other nations, he told a regional security forum in Beijing.
Below is a recap of the key points of Shoigu’s speech at the 10th Beijing Xiangshan Forum.
‘Neocolonial diktat’
“Modern cataclysms in international relations are directly linked to the resistance of certain nations to the inevitable strengthening of a multipolar world [and] their attempts to preserve their hegemony,” Shoigu said in his address.
Western nations put “hard pressure” on those who stand up to their “neocolonial diktat,” up to and…