EU’s Kallas says Xi, Putin, Kim and Iran challenge rules-based order

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday the leaders of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea – who appeared together at a military parade in Beijing – represented an “autocratic alliance” challenging the rules-based international order.

“While Western leaders gather in diplomacy, an autocratic alliance is seeking a fast track to a new world order,” Kallas, the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy, told reporters in…