Afghan withdrawal leaves allies to face harsh reality of US's departure from world stage
"China and Russia have in recent years acted in tandem, using international institutions to poke the West in the eye.
According to Velina Tchakarova, director of the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy, China and Russia are already "operating within the existing global order with the clear goal of disrupting it, dismantling its multilateral structures" to further competing views of multilateralism that contradict the West's."