Russia willing to 'soften the border' in exchange for China's support, political scientist says
As the meeting between Vladimir #Putin and #Xi Jinping wraps up, Tom Burges Watson speaks to political scientist Dr Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova, Head of the China Studies Centre at Riga Stardins University, about how far will Russia go to secure the support of Beijing. #China#Russia#Ukraine
Chinese President #Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir #Putin condemned what they cast as increasingly aggressive #US behaviour on Thursday and pledged to deepen their countries' already close defence and military ties.
The wanted war criminal Putin and FSB thugs (successor of the Soviet-era KGB) entourage on their way to Bejing to meet with Xi on Thursday.
RSD111 is Il-96-300PU RA-96021 #157715
RSD501 is Il-96-300PU RA-96024 #157718
RSD433 is Il-96-300PU RA-96025 #157719
RSD171 is Il-96-300 RA-96017 #157711
RSD972 is Tu-214VPU RA-64517 #14FC05
Dear Xi, Don't leave your drink near any FSB, you are well aware they like to poison.
Today #Russia and #China play best friends forever and #USSR had been traditionally placed in the same “communist” basked as China. Some fun facts that especially tankies are getting completely wrong today.^1
Since 1950’s China and USSR were actually conflicted over each other’s interpretations of #Marxism and in 1960’s the conflict nearly escalated into a full-scale nuclear war between the two countries.
China criticised CPSU (Communist Party of Soviet Union) over Soviet invasion of #Czechoslovakia (1968)^2 and “Brezhnev Doctrine” which denounced any Marxism version outside of the Soviet one as “reactionary” (Marxist newspeak for “heresy”). This included both Czechoslovak reforms and Mao’s Cultural Revolution in equal manner. At that time China actually developed complex relations with Eastern Bloc countries such as Romania and Czechoslovakia behind Kremlin’s back.
Essentially, everyone called each other “reactionary” and claimed their Marxism is the correct one. Any resemblance to past religious wars is entirely incidental. 😉 In 1968 Chinese diplomat Zhou Enlai speaking in Romanian embassy in Beijing called Soviets for “fascist politics, great power chauvinism, national egoism and social imperialism”.^3
Does that ring any bells? 😉
Soviets and China had a number of unresolved border issues in Manchuria. In 1968 China started escalating these, actually killing Soviet border guards. Moscow, knowing of China’s nuclear weapons and Mao’s confrontative attitude preferred to deescalate… which only encouraged Chinese.
Does that remind anything from contemporary history? 😉
At the peak of the conflict in 1969 USSR found itself in the position of a country with high-tech army challenged by a low-tech army which relied on millions of conscripts and human wave tactics.
Does this ring any bells? 😉
In 1969 Soviet army managed to push back overwhelming several Chinese offensives near the island of Zhenbao in spite of their overwhelming numbers with ratios up to 1:10 Soviet to Chinese. That was possible primarily due to the technical advantage, such as then-advanced T-62 tanks.
A ceasefire was signed in 1969 - on Chinese side by the very same Zhou Enlai who called Soviets “fascists” only a year before, but the actual peace agreement was only signed in 1991. The conflict was only completely resolved in 2008 (!) when Russia ceded 340 km² of the disputed lands to China.
As you can see, contrary to the mythology carefully constructed by modern “geopolitical realists”, there’s nothing constant in Russian or Soviet policies. Russia can not always win armed conflicts, it can cede territories and in general conflicts can be won in spite of imbalance of power. Oh, and calling others “fascists” was used by everyone and Russia was both an user and a recipient of this nomination.
I don’t have special insight into the heads of #Putin or #Xi. I connect dots in publicly available knowledge, and share them if they make sense and other tangential info seem to corroborate them.
Whenever I do this though, I always cite links to sources so others can either accept my ideas or reject them by evaluating the supplied source material.
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
Compare with #US, which has barred #Israel’s FULL-SCALE invasion of #Rafah.
Putin says Russia is prepared to negotiate over Ukraine, just like #Hamas says it’s prepared to negotiate with Israel.
#China claims to be neutral but backs Russian position that it was provoked into attacking Ukraine by the West, despite Putin’s public avowals of his #RevanchistDreams
While most Western countries are concerned with extrajudicial security personnel from #China going after Chinese dissidents and other interference via secret police stations, Hungary just went and signed a deal with China: "lol, police from a totalitarian country officially patrolling our streets? sure thing"
On the last leg of his European tour in #Hungary, Chinese President #Xi Jinping on Wednesday (8 May) is expected to tighten ties with #Budapest, its closest ally in the #EU.
#China’s ambassador to Hungary, Gong #Tao, said that “#Beijing expects from the Hungarian EU Presidency that the Hungarian side will pursue a rational and pragmatic policy towards China and will encourage other EU countries to do the same.”
Who is #Xi Jinping’s travel agent? If you are making your first trip to #Europe in nearly five years, an itinerary that reads #France, #Serbia, #Hungary seems a little eccentric.
But the three stops chosen by #China’s leader make perfect sense viewed from #Beijing. For strategic and economic reasons, China badly wants to disrupt the unity of both #Nato and the #EU.
#Xi Jinping on Monday warned against smearing #China over the #Ukraine conflict, insisting that Beijing was playing a "positive role" trying to find a peaceful solution to #Russia 's invasion. Mark Owen speaks to Philippe Le Corre, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis.
🇨🇳➡️🇪🇺 "For the first time in 5 years, the leader of China will come to Europe. Xi Jinping makes rare visit to France, Serbia and Hungary", - The Economist
🇫🇷 In Paris, Macron will "press" him on Ukraine and the trade imbalance, — Reuters.
🕊️ He also plans to discuss the "Olympic truce", - La Tribune
Xi Jinping will travel to the European Union for the first time in five years. The Chinese president will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia, and Hungary on May 5, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
@falcennial imo one of the restrictions that the US (and others) put on #Ukraine is that they can't kill #putin .
this is mainly because they fear the reaction of #Xi after watching a sitting head of state killed by a US-assisted country.
on the other hand, no US aid means that russia may win or freeze the conflict in Ukraine.
then putin would immediately try to kill the Ukrainian political and military leadership: which means that they would have all the incentives to kill putin first.
#Brussels has raided the offices of a Chinese security equipment supplier, deploying new anti-foreign subsidy powers in a move that will further inflame tensions between the trading superpowers ahead of a planned visit by President #Xi Jinping to Europe.
The raid by the European Commission and local law enforcement on the local offices in #Poland and the #Netherlands of #Nuctech, which manufactures products such as airport, seaport and baggage security scanners
Eben einen Kommentar gelesen aus der Fahrradbubble.
" Solange wir die besseren Fakten haben, sind wir den Rechten überlegen".
Hmmmm. Die NS- Zeit wurde auch durch Fakten von Linksliberalen verhindert.
Diese bürgerlich- akademische Überheblichkeit wird uns allen den Hals brechen.
Weil daraus resultieren falsche Gedanken. Aus den falschen Gedanken die falschen Methoden. Aus den falschen Methoden der falsche Weg.
"Es ist doch ihr Geschäftsmodell absichtlich Lügen zu verbreiten, die Menschen zu verwirren, damit sie nicht genau sehen können, was richtig und falsch ist . Das ist Nazimethode."
Stimmt
Zwar hat #Goebbels das perfektioniert, jedoch ist Realitätsverfälschung und -kontrolle DAS Metier #totalitärer Regime allgemein, nicht nur der #Nazis:
Selbst wenn man #Trump und #DeSantis sowie alle #MAGATs als Nazis einstuft; #1984 und der #Stalinismus zeigten und #Xi und #Putler demonstrieren es.
[Bloomberg]: Xi Says US CEOs Should Invest in China, Economy Hasn’t Peaked
President meets with executives of Blackstone, Qualcomm, FedEx. Xi wants both countries to find common ground on major issues
#Trump said it would be a "bloodbath" if he didn't win this year's US presidential election.
"You screw us & we'll screw you," he said. "It's very simple, very fair."
Trump said he would hit cars made in Mexico by Chinese companies w/a 100% tariff, double the levy he has previously said he would put on automobiles made south of the US border.
#Trump addressed Chinese President #Xi Jinping directly during a rally speech in Dayton, Ohio, on Sat when threatening the tariffs.
"Those big monster car manufacturing plants you are building in Mexico right now & you think you are going to get that - not hire Americans & you're going to sell the car to us, no," Trump said.
"We are going to put a 100% tariff on every car that comes across the lot."
“…[#Trump] likes the dictators so much is that’s who he is” Kelly said “Every incoming president is shocked that they actually have so little #power w/o going to #Congress, which is a good thing. It’s Civics101, #SeparationOfPowers, 3 equal branches….But in his case, he was shocked that he didn’t have #dictator-type powers to send US forces places or move money around in the budget & he looked at #Putin, #Xi & that nutcase in NorthKorea as people who were like him in terms of being a tough guy”
...simply not because a state had the better military and created these facts.
The erroneous "might makes right" concept, still espoused by the #Bush Admistration, as well as autocrats like #Putin and #Xi, would have desastrous consequences for the world order (e.g. #Ukraine, #SouthChinaSea, #Taiwan, etc.).
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
There has been relative calm in the #TaiwanStrait since the #Biden-#Xi summit, after a period of high tension in which Chinese warships and planes would regularly approach #Taiwan. At the same time however, there has been increasing friction in the #SouthChinaSea between #China and neighbouring countries, particularly the #Philippines, a #US ally. #WestPHSea
Bloomberg: Macron hopes to convince Xi to sway Putin toward ending invasion of Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
Xi Jinping will travel to the European Union for the first time in five years. The Chinese president will begin his five-day trip to France, Serbia, and Hungary on May 5, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.