China Declared Its Russia Friendship Had 'No Limits.' It's Having Second Thoughts.

[dalton99a]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-russia-xi-putin-ukraine-war-11646279098

China Declared Its Russia Friendship Had 'No Limits.' It’s Having Second Thoughts.
Xi Jinping wanted Vladimir Putin to join in a united front against the U.S., and he got it Feb. 4. Now the Ukraine war threatens to undo Beijing’s yearslong effort to become a world leader.
By Lingling Wei
March 3, 2022 10:40 am ET

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“Elevating the partnership with Russia on the eve of its invasion of Ukraine was a massive foreign-policy blunder by Xi,” said Jude Blanchette, a China specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank focused on international relations. “The cost is very real for China and is exposing the limits of Xi’s policy.”

Just a year ago, Mr. Xi was making remarks such as “The East is rising, and the West is in decline,” as China’s economy roared back while much of the world was mired in Covid-19 lockdowns. Beijing was trying to shape and inhabit a role for itself as a leader on combating climate change and a benevolent sponsor of developing nations, even as it was ramping up nationalistic rhetoric, including around its claims to Taiwan.

This year, during which Mr. Xi is expected to break with precedent and seek a third term in power, he is facing an economic downturn at home that is largely a result of his own policies — and a geopolitical shift in which China has placed itself on one side of a gulf that has almost all of the rest of the world on the other side.

It was Beijing that suggested including that the two countries’ friendship has “no limits” — wording read with apprehension in the West — according to the officials and advisers. The intention was less a declaration China would stand by Russia in case of war than a strong message to the U.S. about the resolve the two have in confronting what they see as increased American threats, the people said.

[Irish_Dem]

1. China made a big mistake hitching its future to Russia.

It is a rare mistake for China, but a significant one.

Xi must be watching in horror as he sees all of his hard work taking a major hit.

[XacerbatedDem]

2. Good

Maybe the expectation of global nuclear war had some kind of influence.

[mitch96]

3. For me the answer is where is the oil, gas, and wheat going? If it's going from russian to china

This is all political posturing.. Follow the money. Is china buying russian products?
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