Putin spoke about how the Americans push their neighbours and "allies" to worsen their relations with Russia and China :

- We are not uniting in some kind of military-political alliance, but the Americans are doing this. Moreover, they force their allies to worsen relations with Russia and China... China did not engage with them; it is the Americans who are fighting them... they drag Europeans there. Europeans do not want to quarrel with China... The Americans are pushing them there. Secondly, they create all sorts of new military-political blocks.