Friends in the East: Moscow & Beijing growing ever closer, while respect for US is declining across world, Russians tell pollster

With tensions growing

With tensions growing on their country’s Western borders, Russians are increasingly looking eastwards for international friends, new research claims, as more and more people in the world’s largest country think favorably of China.

A poll found that almost three out of four Russians express favorable views of China, while 57 percent believe that the two nations will grow closer as allies over the next decade. The Chicago Council, a US-based think tank funded by groups like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation, conducted the research along with Moscow’s Levada Center, which is registered as a ‘foreign agent’ by the Russia’s Ministry of Justice over links to overseas funding.

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