China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reportedly told the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas on July 3 that the country cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine amid fears the U.S. would shift focus towards Beijing, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported, citing sources familiar with the conversation.
As the war in Ukraine drags on, Wang’s reported comments suggest that Russia’s war in Ukraine may serve China’s strategic needs as focus is deviated away from Beijing’s mounting preparation to launch its own possible invasion into Taiwan.
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China has been a key ally to Russia during its full-scale war, helping Moscow evade Western sanctions and becoming the leading source of dual-use goods fueling the Russian defense industry.
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The frankness of Wang’s reported admission was greeted with surprise by EU official, according to Hong Kong-based SCMP, amid China’s past public statements in favor of a peace deal. Two sources familiar with the meeting told SCMP that they believed Wang was providing Kallas with a lesson in realpolitik during the four-hour encounter.
Wang on July 3 again reportedly rejected Western accusations that it was providing funding and weaponry to support Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly accused Beijing of providing weaponry to Moscow. On May 29, Zelensky said that China had stopped selling drones to Ukraine and Western countries while continuing to supply them to Russia.
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Wrong approach LOL
China could simply tell Russia to fuck off of Ukraine. Case closed.
As I understood, their interest is actually prolonging the war, as that will keep US attention divided.
Or send troops and weapons to finish the war in russias favor if they REALLY wanted to see russia win.
That’s the nuance. They “don’t want to see them lose” doesn’t mean they need to win, China probably just likes the destabilizing effect it has on the area. So they prop them up just enough to keep them going.
Yeah, i am pretty sure China is playing the same “game” the US (or the collective west) is playing since the start of the war: Just send in enough support to keep it going and let the geopolitical adversaries tire themself out. Its very much amoralistic but has a surprisingly relateable logic behind it
Although the west certainly could do more to enable a Ukrainian victory, I don’t see their motivation as being the same as Chinas.
Why not? Its all about the position on the geostrategic playing field… get a better position without risk to lose it all.
Because the west has nothing but cost to gain from drawing this out any more. Russias military has already been demolished, reduced to using drones and rockets. At this point it would make more sense to end this with a win and strenghten Ukraine against further russian aggression. It would still allow for increased military spending, and all the other stuff they want to do.
How will the US remain the hegemon but with a war against China?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-with-un-projections?country=CHN~USA
This is how. Obviously Trump is really not helping.
A lot of things can happen in 75 years, so the outcome shown here might not even come to fruition
Obviously, but even within the next 25years according to this forecast China goes from having 4.1x the US population to 3.3x. In 50 years it would be 2.3x. Basically if this is somewhat right, then it is a possible strategy to contain China dimplomaticly and weaken its economy without going to war. As the odds improve for the US over time.
The US will lose hegemony during the next ten years if nothing changes. Going from 4.1x to 3.3x in 25 years won’t be relevant for that transition.
This also assumes that China cannot change their child policy once more.
Thus, a big war is coming.
I guess we will just have to wait and see
No idea what that means, but they do not remain anything anyway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony