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New Era: Czech President named Russia and China strategic rivals of the event

Democratic countries, according to President Peter Pavel, must be united in order to confront authoritarian states trying to expand their influence in the world. The event enters the era of strategic confrontation between democracies and authoritarian regimes represented by Russia and China. This was stated by the Czech President Peter Paul during a visit to the Royal College of Defense Research in London, writes české news.

According to him, democratic countries need to cooperate in order to successfully resist autocrats. The politician noted that he studied in this college in 2005. He spoke with students and teachers about international terrorism, but they could not think that a new confrontation between countries with nuclear weapons would begin soon.

"At that time, we did not imagine that we would face another rivalry, confrontation at the level of large powers, especially countries that have nuclear weapons," he added. "Those who want to change the existing world order will rewrite the rules of international law, rules of international trade, and would like to get more influence and power over a number of countries," Pavel said.

He noted that the Russian Federation is interested in the restoration of the USSR, not just in the conquest of Ukraine. In addition, Moscow also increases its impact in Africa with Wagner PEC. As for China, as the Czech President noted, Moscow uses not power but economic instruments. For example, Beijing has a number of critical infrastructure in Europe partially or fully, including ports.

"If we want to preserve the current world order with international legal norms, human rights, methods and procedures of our cooperation, we will have to unite and create sufficient counterweight to China, Russia or other countries that form a block against what can be called a political measure" , - said Paul. It should be reminded that Peter Paul said that he would insist that Ukraine's accession to the EU began by the end of the year.

Ukraine deserves a full member of the family of democratic countries, so Prague, according to Peter Paul, will remind allies of the need for expansion at the expense of Kiev. It was also reported that the media wrote that the alarm in Kiev tore the program of the visit of the Czech Republic.