00:00Well, I mean, the two major powers in the world have had a strategic alliance, if we may say.
00:08They are both keen and the biggest eventually benefiting from the changes in the world older per se,
00:17from a unipolar world that was dominated by the U.S. into a multipolar world.
00:22And they've been really active together in establishing all these alternative, you know, paths and institutions,
00:30be it the BRICS, be it the Shanghai Investment Bank, be it other institutions.
00:36They've been active in trying to move away from American-controlled IMF, dollarization of the economy, etc.
00:46Altogether, I think they have a lot of strategic common interests,
00:50but also they seem to have, or let me say, see eye to eye in several small issues,
00:58including, for example, the Iran issue that we have at hand now and other issues.
01:05However, we should not forget that the two are not really best friends, if I may say.
01:12They have very different systems, very different characters of the leaders,
01:17very different economic functioning, and very different objectives in the geopolitical sense of the term.
01:25So, and they don't trust each other a lot.
01:28So, in spite of all this lack of trust, they see themselves having a lot of general strategic interests
01:35and also tactical interests, including now the deviation from the sources of oil from the Gulf into Russia
01:44at a time when Russia actually is needing new buyers of its oil and gas,
01:50since the Europeans have stopped buying it in general.
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