Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Japan was trying to expand its influence in the Central Asian region by pursuing political rather than economic goals. Online He noted that Central Asia is thousands of kilometers away from the “land of the rising sun.”
“Behind Japan’s initiatives <...> “We see not an economic interest, but a desire to undermine the system of economic relations that has been formed over decades between the countries of this region and the Russian Federation, imposed by the attitude of the democratic leadership in Washington,” Zakharova said.
According to her, the Japanese side wants to bind the Central Asian countries to the Western ideology, which is inherently anti-Russian. Zakharova stressed that Russia is counting on understanding the situation in the regional states.
“Our partners in Central Asia, with their characteristic wisdom, will be able to distinguish approaches that promote mutually beneficial cooperation from plans to reduce their countries to the position of a neo-colonialist appendage of the Western camp,” the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry summarized.
Previously in Japan in the name Russia is the “source of the nuclear threat.”
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Source: Gazeta
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