Recently, Alexander Lukashenko flew to China to talk with the head of state. The Belarusian dictator needs a new master.
Therefore, Lukashenka is very hopeful for Xi Jinping. Andrey Piontkovsky, a Russian publicist, said this to Channel 24 .
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China is unlikely to escalate
According to the publicist, the war in Ukraine softened the conflict between Putin and Lukashenko, which reached a peak after the elections. All three opposition candidates were from the Kremlin. “Putin tried for 30 years to turn Lukashenka into the secretary of the Minsk regional committee, he did not agree. This conflict always exists, now it is obvious,” says Piontkovsky.
By the way, he continues, Vladimir Makei was killed because he was the main channel of communication not so much with the West as with China. “Lukashenko wanted to receive from Xi the same statement that he made regarding Kazakhstan. China gave guarantees of its territorial integrity,” the publicist recalled.
It was a very important game, Piontkovsky says, and it continues now.
China may not openly go against the US, but will use other paths. He has a lot of other states through which he can transfer this or that weapon. I feel that Washington is very serious. I don't think Xi will go for such an aggravation,” Andrey Piontkovsky believes.
Piontkovsky emphasizes: China and the United States are economic Siamese twins. The American and European markets are very important for the Chinese. China's powerful technological leap thanks to Western technology should also be taken into account. In addition, the West is also largely dependent.
There are very serious negotiations going on now. It seems to me that China allows rumors to leak out that China is about to begin military assistance to Russia – this is an instrument of pressure on the United States, the solution of some global economic issues between us. – emphasizes the publicist.
Yes, China will negotiate preferences for itself. Therefore, it is unlikely that China will now throw a similar challenge to the United States.
“We reproached the West for a certain timidity. In the end, they can be understood as the leaders of their states, because they were elected in order to protect the lives of their fellow citizens. If there is an opportunity to win some kind of geopolitical conflict, eliminate the threat to their security by the lives of other citizens. .. Perhaps politics is a tough business, but it seems to me that they feel certain complexes, “the publicist explained.
That is why, he continues, the West is trying to compensate for its timidity with an uncompromising reaction to China's possible support for the aggressor.
“The West is ready to go very far on this issue. The Americans understand what Ukraine is doing for them and the whole world, and therefore they will be principled,” Andrei Piontkovsky summed up.
China does not want Russia's defeat
- Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, China's position has been extremely ambiguous. The fact is that the Chinese really do not want the defeat of Russia. At the same time, Beijing fears that direct military assistance will be seen as a pretext for the imposition of serious economic sanctions by the United States and other Western countries.
- According to military expert Yuri Fedorov, China may be looking for certain workarounds to help the Russian aggressor. We are talking about Belarus, Iran and other countries.
- “I’m not sure that the Chinese want Russia to win, but they definitely don’t want defeat. It’s a fact, nothing can be done about it. China’s position is far from being the most favorable in this war. I don’t want to upset, but you need to look at things as they are “, – says Fedorov.
