The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece by Lingling Wei today asserting that China is having second thoughts about their support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Wishful thinking?
“Since the Russian troops marched into Ukraine on Feb. 24, China has been walking what many foreign-policy experts call a diplomatic tightrope. It is locked into having to help Russia and has little interest in seeing Moscow collapse economically, while it is trying to stick to its foreign-policy principles around sovereignty and attempting to prevent its relations with the U.S. and Europe from completely collapsing,” Wei writes.
Both China and Russia see the US as their biggest adversary as Mr. Lei says.
The author’s evidence that China has misgivings is basically what follows.
The author claims China didn’t count on Moscow’s increasingly heated rhetoric on Ukraine, and is now concerned about their decision to back the invasion.
A CCP apparatchik said so.
“China’s eagerness to present a strong alignment with Russia to counter the US caused it to miss all the signs and to go in a dangerous direction,” said Yun Sun, Director of the China program at the Stimson Center, a Washington think tank focused on promoting peace and security.
So, what else is the Director of the “promoting peace and security” China propaganda program going to say?
What about trusting a Biden apparatchik’s opinion?
Then there’s the comments by Kurt Campbell, Biden’s senior coordinator for Indo-Pacific Policy at the National Security Council, who said on Monday during a Webinar hosted by the German Marshall Fund that the US was hoping China could play a critical role in encouraging Mr. Putin to reconsider invading Ukraine but said, “We believe they chose not to weigh in in advance.”
If they believed that, they truly are naive.
Another piece of evidence is the fact that China is buying Russian farm and energy products but is complying with the sanctions.
Lastly, the writer cites a phone call as evidence.
The WSJ’s writer’s conclusion is China is ambiguous on the Russia-Ukraine war. The article cites a phone call between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Ukrainian counterpart. Wang said, “The security of one country shouldn’t be achieved at the expense of the security of other countries. And the regional security can’t be achieved by expanding military blocs.”
To believe Wang was sincere, you must also believe China isn’t going to seize Taiwan at some point. Of course, China is claiming Taiwan is China just as Putin is claiming Ukraine is Russia.
China and Russia really didn’t like each other until the US started to poke the bear and pushed Russia into China’s arms. China loves it as both discuss an Asia-African Alliance that will bury the West.
There is a lot more to the piece but to buy into it, you’d have to buy into the evidence.
THEN THERE’S THE FEBRUARY 4 MEETING
Citing “senior Biden Administration officials and a European official,” The New York Times recently reported, “a Western intelligence report” indicated that at an early February meeting, senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials to delay their invasion of Ukraine until the Olympics were over.
That indicates top China officials knew of Russia’s plans well before the invasion.
The two leaders met on February 4 and both voiced their objections to NATO’s growth, said their partnership had “no limits,” and confirmed plans to “establish a new global order with true ‘democracy,’” the Times reported.
Western intelligence officials said the report was “credible.”
The Times’ emailed Liu Pengyu, the Chinese Embassy spokesman in Washington, who responded, “These claims are speculation without any basis, and are intended to blame-shift and smear China.”
You can believe them or not, but what are the chances they discussed NATO and didn’t bother to discuss the invasion? In any case, don’t take anything either leader says too seriously.
What else was he going to say?
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And they did what to stop it? Nothing.
Biden went to them saying talk them out of it, they took that info to their fellow travelers.
Tell me why again anyone would trust them?
Oh…buckets full of cash for CPUSA comrades in the Yenan Way style.
This is just more pro-China gossip/speculation.
WSJ has no credibility, it supports massive US debt, opposed sanctions on China (stealing hundreds of billions from us, even the WTO agrees it does), supported the election coup, and supports mass illegal immigration.
Here’s Alexander’s video.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/1Pom3XBx3WU/
Is there truly no intellectual left in the world. India is interviewing Yuval Harari, an Israeli “historian”. He suggests there is no Nazi problem in Ukraine, and bases that on Zelensky being a Jew. On the surface one could believe that would be the case. But there is just too much evidence to the contrary. Sometimes people just don’t want to see what’s right in their face. The history of the Shoah (for Yuval) bears that out. For some reason people will politely stand there and be murdered on the spot. So is it so difficult to see a “Jew” who doesn’t see Nazis around him. I should think a “historian”, when hearing of such claims, would do due diligence and search every scrap of information for the truth, rather than use, “he’s a Jew so that’s not possible”. I’ve even heard Frum Jews say the same.
The videos can be easily found with a little digging, except on Google – since Putin made his remark. But on Bing, lo and behold the very first entry is from none other than Times of Israel from JANUARY 1. This tell me Yuval has ulterior motives for making such remarks. I can only hope it’s the fear Zelensky would be equated with Soros. Anything else is disingenuous.
Alexander is spot on as far as I’m concerned about the status of events. The West does seek unconditional surrender ever since Japan.
Also, I’m beginning to wonder about Zelensky. Is he so inexperienced that he is incapable of reasonable and rational thinking, Or, is he attempting to “imitate” Trump by being “tough”. If he believes that’s all there was to Trump then he has little understanding of the man. You can’t be demanding if you are unable to “back it up”, and so far Zelensky has nothing to back it up. He should realize he’s not getting the military assistance he so desires. If he thinks he can gain the assistance with civilian bodies after handing out AK’s, then he is Evil. Everyone should hope That is Not his intention. But then again, maybe he’s convinced himself he’s the man from his comedic days. If this perchance is the case he needs to immediately resign before he allows a massacre of his people. I would call him who has delusions of grandeur.