MOSCOW (Dispatches) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday the West as a whole employs the dirtiest geopolitical engineering techniques against Moscow and Beijing to maintain its hegemony.
“Today, the collective West is frantically trying to maintain its hegemony, using utterly unscrupulous methods of geopolitical engineering against Russia and China, whom it has picked as its main adversaries,” he said in a video address to an international dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Russia-China Friendship Association.
Under the circumstances, Moscow and Beijing maintain close foreign policy coordination, he added.
“Ties between Moscow and Beijing are one of the key factors in terms of efforts to democratize international relations and establish a more just multipolar world order,” Lavrov emphasized.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “there is no stability in relations with the West at all today, as they often reject already signed documents.”
“Today they say one thing and tomorrow another. They sign documents and tomorrow they reject them. They do whatever they want. There is no stability in anything. It’s completely unclear which documents to sign, what to talk about, and what to hope for,” Putin said at a plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club think tank in Moscow.
Putin said the arrogant aspiration to lead the world and to dictate or preserve leadership by dictate results in the decline of the international authority of Western leaders, including the United States, and in the growth of distrust in their ability to negotiate.
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said Washington should not let itself be blinded by ideological bias when dealing with China, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday.

Wang Yi made the comments when he spoke on the phone with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Wang said the United States should stop trying to contain and suppress China and avoid creating obstacles to the relationship.
He said export controls that Washington imposed on China severely damaged its legitimate rights and must be rectified, according to a statement from the Chinese foreign ministry.