What the Sino-Russian Declaration Exposes By Jordan Ryan Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/06/what-the-sino-russian-declaration-exposes/ The joint declaration issued by Russia and China on 20 May, Joint Declaration of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the Establishment of a Multipolar World and a New Type of International Relations, has been read in sharply different ways. Some welcome its language of sovereign equality, multilateralism and a UN-centred international order. Others dismiss it as legal rhetoric deployed in bad faith. Both responses miss the more important point. Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service.