What China thinks of the Russia-Ukraine war
The war in Ukraine and the role of the US in an editorial in the Global Times, the nationalist tabloid of the Chinese Communist Party. Marco Orioles's article
What does Beijing think of the latest developments in the war in Ukraine? And how did it react in the face of the drastic declarations with which n. 1 of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, has reformulated American policy towards Moscow in an openly hostile way?
The Global Times' fiery editorial
The Chinese response was not long in coming. And it came through a very incisive Global Times editorial , an unofficial but reliable voice of the CCP establishment .
The aim of the anonymous author of the text is clear from the title: “Washington's true intentions revealed; the escalation of tensions puts Europe and the world at risk ”.
As per the textbook of the perfect propagandist, the author takes care first of all to reverse the angle of view. Does the US, Austin says, now want to "weaken" Russia by forcing it into a long war of attrition that will dissipate its military strength? For the Global Times , this means that Washington has finally thrown off the mask and laid bare how "its primary intent" had always been to "provoke the Russian-Ukrainian conflict" with the final design, precisely, of " weaken Russia ".
"The US wants to destroy Russia"
By erasing the very reality of the invasion, which was never officially condemned by Beijing, the Global Times overturns the responsibility and attributes it to the Americans who now – as "a New York Times article" reported without any reference or link acknowledged – they launched an offensive "directed against Moscow".
This is the "real purpose" of the US, the editorialist pointedly writes, repeating the same concept twice. With the blows of sanctions and NATO supplies to Ukraine, their goal is now, to recall the words of Vladimir Putin appropriately quoted in the article, "to destroy Russia from within".
It is a warlike superpower that portrayed by the Global Times , according to which the Americans no longer even want to follow the path of a negotiation that could end hostilities. "The door to negotiations has in fact been closed," notes the editorial, quick to recall how the Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov handed his counterpart an olive branch to no avail.
The US recklessly does not understand that their "blind provocations against Moscow do nothing but add fuel to the fire" by increasing "uncertainty".
Third world war risk
In Washington – adds the editorialist – they do not seem to have grasped the sense of the warnings repeatedly issued by Lavrov to the West about "the high risk of a nuclear conflict" as well as the "real" danger of triggering the third world war.
"If NATO were to make a constant flow of offensive and even destructive weapons available to Ukraine, and continue with its verbal provocations against Russia", it would not have to complain if the latter, rightly irritated, concretely replied "by transforming the Europe on a battlefield ".
On the skin of the Ukrainians
Seen through the lens of the Global Times , the strategy of the US and the West can only have the effect of "prolonging the conflict between Ukraine and Russia" rather than hastening its end.
In his attempt to "weaken Russia", Austin dixit, Washington has no qualms about using Ukraine as a "pawn". Ultimately, all his actions – the daily remarks – are conducted "on the skin of the Ukrainians".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cina-ucraina-global-times/ on Thu, 28 Apr 2022 08:11:52 +0000.