Biden believes that concerns about Russia and China are “exaggerated”

March 25 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has expressed his opinion this Friday on concerns about the growing relationship between Russia and China, which he considers to be “exaggerated”.

“I don’t take China lightly, I don’t take Russia lightly, but I think we exaggerate a lot,” he said, asked by journalists about the deepening of relations between Moscow and Beijing after the three-day visit of the Chinese president. Xi Jinping, to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

For Biden, who is in Canada as part of a working visit with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he has insisted that he does not underestimate “what China and Russia are doing”, but asks that “we put it in perspective”.

“We are indeed a coalition, the United States and Canada,” he reiterated, comparing the relationship between the two North American countries with that between Moscow and Beijing, which he considers less political, economic and trade.

For the US president, “if anything the West has come together much more” since the start of the war, he recalled that, while China and Russia have met around 40 times in ten years, he has had meetings with “80 percent percent of world leaders” since his term began.

Even so, he has warned that “what they are doing” these two countries “could get worse”, and has expressed his concern about the support that Xi has shown to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to ‘The Hill’.