Will China continue to support Putin?

1 June 20222 years ago babelfish

What happens between Xi's China and Putin's Russia. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

Although China tried to get closer to Ukraine to try to achieve mediation, the telephone meeting between the two presidents in fact did not take place.

What is the main reason for the failure of this possible mediation?

Both the Communist Party of China and Chinese intelligence had hoped for a meeting with the Ukrainian president, but it is very likely that the Ukrainian president would have used this meeting with the Chinese president not to reach mediation but to raise his accusations against the Russian president. and therefore to achieve greater international support.

However, it seems that support for President Putin in China is also beginning to wane, as underlined by a long article published by The Diplomat . Gao Yusheng, a 75-year-old career diplomat, made a harsh anti-war accusation of Russian President Vladimir Putin during an internal webinar hosted by the government-affiliated China International Finance 30 Forum and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Gao argued that the country has been in a "continuing historical process of decline" since the demise of the Soviet Union. “The so-called revitalization of Russia under Putin's reign is based on a false premise. Russia's decline is evident in all areas… and has had a significant negative impact on the Russian military and its fighting capabilities, ”he said. According to Gao, the odds are stacked so heavily against Putin that "it is only a matter of time before Russia is completely defeated."

He criticized the Putin regime for "considering the former Soviet Union as its exclusive sphere of influence" and "violating the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of other former Soviet states", which resulted in "the most great threat to peace, security and stability in Eurasia ".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/cina-mediazione-ucraina-sostegno-putin/ on Tue, 31 May 2022 06:28:32 +0000.