On February 20, the head of Chinese diplomacy, Wang Yi, arrived in Moscow, where he made a number of high-profile statements. In the information field, it was completely blocked by the visit to Kyiv by US President Biden, and it is in this context that it should be considered.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has already said that China is considering giving lethal aid to Russia. At the same time, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, he had already warned the Chinese diplomat about the consequences of such a decision. Why Wang Yi's visit to Moscow is a landmark for the future of Russia and what threats to China itself – read the Channel 24 article.
Why Biden's visit to Kiev is also China's answer.
For reference!Wang Yi has long served as Chinese Foreign Minister and is now the head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China. This body is responsible for overseeing the country's foreign policy.
Political scientist Taras Zagorodniy on Channel 24 stressed that Biden's visit to Kiev is a powerful signal to the whole world, first of all, to all totalitarian regimes.
Biden's visit is a response not only to Putin, but also to China. China tried to intervene and announced its vision – let's stop the war, but taking into account the interests of Russia. With this, Wang Yi arrived in Moscow, just from Munich, where he was severely warned that Russian military assistance would cost China dearly. Thus, the United States sent a signal to all totalitarian leaders who control the situation,” Taras Zagorodniy said about the significance of Biden’s visit to the capital of Ukraine.
Zagorodniy told what Biden’s visit to Ukraine: watch the video
A well-known Russian publicist from the USA Andrey Piontkovsky agrees with the Ukrainian political scientist. He voiced his position on Channel 24.
“Unlike the latest Chinese warning,” the US has all the leverage”, the expert believes.
China has been warned, Biden also raised this topic: if the PRC starts transferring lethal weapons to the Russians, this will have very serious consequences, not even of a military, but of an economic nature. China and the United States are strongly economically linked, and if China began to transfer weapons, the Americans would go to the sever of economic ties, which would destroy the Chinese economy, – Piontkovsky on China's warning.
How Putin is trying to sell Russia to China
Piontkovsky also explained why China is so stubbornly “getting into” this topic. For Beijing, there is a direct benefit here. The PRC is now cashing in on Russia and playing for the long haul. The price of China's support for Russia will be its sovereignty. Thus, Putin is now selling his own country to China in order to continue the war in Ukraine.
China now receives energy resources from Russia at penny prices, since the West has closed its markets to Russians. China, as a monopoly buyer, dictates its prices and freedom. In fact, China already dominates economically both in the Far East and in Eastern Siberia, and even Western. Russia becomes not a junior partner, but a direct vassal of China, moreover, completely dependent on China. And China is quite happy with that – Andrey Piontkovsky on the Chinese trap for Russia.
If China has an obvious benefit for itself, then Putin's position is weak, it looks like a chaotic attempt to put out a fire with a glass of water, and such tactics can hardly be called far-sighted.According to Piontkovsky, China's support will not help Putin now, he himself is laying a time bomb under his own regime..
What's wrong with China's “peace plan”
There is speculation as to what the “China peace plan” is, this “peace speech” that Xi Jinping is to deliver on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. Recall that he said that his plan would proceed from the principle of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, as well as taking into account the “legitimate” security interests of Russia.
“I think he will propose the renewal of territorial integrity, but taking into account the neutral status of Ukraine. I think that Ukraine will refuse this option of “Finlandization”, but this will also be a signal for Putin's entourage – if China talks about the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine, then Putin is doing badly and somehow it is necessary to dissociate himself from him,” Piontkovsky emphasizes. , implying that in fact China's “peace plan” is actually a blow to the Putin regime.
Andrey Piontkovsky told how Biden created problems for Putin: watch the video
< p>Thus, we can state that:
- China's support for Russia's actions is illusory, but Putin will pay for it with real resources and “zones of influence” that he will be forced to give to China.
- The war he planned, as an expansion of his own “zones of influence”, drove him to a dead end< /strong>, exit from which is possible only at the expense of sovereignty, this time – your own.
- The situation might have been different if Russia had won, but the Russian plan to take over Ukraine failed, moreover, the Russian invasion consolidated the collective West and created a powerful coalition. This fact causes China to be very careful and listen to the US and Europe.
By the way, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky also reacted to Wang's trip to Moscow and called on China to be “pragmatic”. In an interview with Die Welt, Zelensky emphasized that if China really decides to unite with Russia, this could lead us to a world war.
Zelensky is right, because China's entry into the war will change the nature of the conflict, turning it into a struggle involving two opposing sides – an authoritarian peace with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea and a democratic peace with Ukraine, the EU, the US and even Japan and South Korea.
Let's note, The US views China as an ally of Russia and a country that secretly provides non-lethal military assistance to the aggressor. The United States suggests that China may decide to transfer lethal weapons to the Russians.
The meeting between Wang Yi and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference was devoted to this topic. Now, with this luggage, the Chinese diplomat left for Moscow, and on February 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping promises to make a separate “peace speech”, which is expected to announce the so-called “Chinese peace plan” for the war in Ukraine.
China currently takes a bizarre position in relation to Russian aggression – it declares a desire for peace and supports the territorial integrity of Ukraine. In particular, he does not recognize the annexation of the temporarily occupied Crimea, but does not directly condemn Russia.