The American agency Associated Press ran the headline “Russia begins war games with China”. Also on Fox News, “Russia and China Begin Military Exercises.”
Others, such as Qatari Al Jazeera and Germany’s Der Spiegel, reported carefully for a third country, highlighting as “Russia’s military exercise with China and India” and “China and India are there”.
By Times of India (reproduction below) and Hindu, among others, the utterances were for their own country, “Indian Army Contingent participates in exercise Vostok-2022 in Russia” and “Vostok begins with participation of India and China”.
The two newspapers stress that the White House, asked about the presence of India in the exercise, declared “concern”. And that Vostok brings together other military contingents from Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries.
The Hindu’s headline was also for the organization, “Narendra Modi, Xi Jinping Study Meeting”, the first in nearly three years for the Indian and Chinese leaders. It could take place as early as the 15th, “with both expected at the SCO summit in Uzbekistan.”
In addition to them and Vladimir Putin, according to the Wall Street Journal, the presidents of Iran and Turkey should also be present.
In a pre-summit analysis, academic Dmitri Trenin, formerly of Moscow’s Carnegie Center and now a columnist for RT, says the bloc “represents half of the population and will help to forge the new world order.”
“The SCO is unlikely to become the non-Western version of NATO,” he writes. “While the US-led bloc is now more united than ever in its effort to preserve the order built at the height of its dominance, non-Western nations exhibit nothing resembling this kind of unity and hierarchy.”
INDIA VS. CHINA, BY RUSSIA
In the main Indian economic newspapers, with Bloomberg, “India is a new big ‘player’ in the Russian oil market once dominated by China”. Now it is “competing” with Beijing even for the most refined type, with “record shipments”.
MADE IN CHINA
Also from Bloomberg, “Chinese cars, TVs and smartphones are replacing German and South Korean imports into Russia as the market is reshaped by sanctions and brand exodus.”
DON’T MATTER?
By newspapers such as Die Welt and Süddeutsche Zeitung, the latter with the title “Contempt for voters? Strong criticism of Baerbock” (above), the German foreign minister was questioned by the phrase “No matter what my German voters think, I will support the people of Ukraine”, at a European event. the hashtag #BaerbockRuecktritt (Resignation of Baerbock) topped the country’s Twitter on Thursday, amid criticism from the opposition, from the Left to the Conservative CDU.
