What exactly is Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vision for the transactional multipolar world?

Putin and Xi Jinping have railed against the unipolar world order that has been led by a US hegemony for years , but their preferred multipolar version remains little discussed.

Putin 's vision has been widely misunderstood thanks to his notorious quote that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the “geopolitical disaster of the [ 20] century ,” in his 2005 state of the nation speech.

Trump is abandoning the rules-based international order the US has been championing during the last 70 years .

Putin said Trump ’s ambitions in Greenland shows Nato countries intend to use the Far North as a “springboard for possible conflicts' and he specifically names Finland and Sweden as “dangerous countries” in the region.

Beijing and Moscow spelled out in great detail their joint vision of what a multipolar world should look like in an 8,000 -word statement last year .

This order is founded on: 'The achievements of World War II and the post-war world order established by the UN Charter' The joint statement was particularly critical of the United States , writing that its adherence 'to hegemonism and power politics' was contrary to a 'multipolar world order'.