The chairman of the international committee of the Russian State Duma, the lower parliament house, Alexei Pushkov, said that the United States' attempts to isolate Russia caused the alliance between Moscow and Beijing, which is the biggest failure of Barack Obama as the United States President.
"I think, it is Obama’s biggest failure over his entire presidency – the alliance between Moscow and Beijing, which has not been that apparent until now. Yes, we did have a strategic partnership, but there has been no talk about allied relations or advanced strategic partnership – the Chinese wanted to have their hands free. But now the alliance has practically been forged ‘thanks’ to the Obama administration," TASS cited him as saying.
According to Pushkov, Beijing understands that in case the anti-Russian campaign was successful, the next blow would be delivered against China. "They (the Chinese) have suddenly realized that if this policy – the isolation of Russia – is successful, China might be next, because the Americans have never even hidden that their chief rival in the 21st century is not Russia, it is China," he stressed.
