China finally in the fight...

[pbmus]

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[PortTack]

1. Good god..great news!

[femmedem]

2. K&R!

I wish I could rec it 100 times.

[elleng]

3. BIG news, imo.

[sheshe2]

4. This is huge.

[Cha]

16. I just texted Cindy about it!

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

We had been talking on he phone for about an hour.. discussing US politics and. of course, Ukraine.

I know she'll be Grateful, too!

[sheshe2]

19. I did not think they were going to step up.

I am so grateful they did.

[Cha]

21. I got the same feeling

from reading things on DU.

So Surprised and Grateful!

[sheshe2]

25. I am still feeling uneasy though.

Putin is insane. Is this his swan song? If so how many will he take with him. I just don't know.

[orangecrush]

27. +1

[luvtheGWN]

29. Perhaps Xi has realized that Putin has gotten off the deep end.

He's talked to him several times, and maybe he's afraid Putin is just unhinged enough to try to blow up the entire world. And if that happens, China won't survive the holocaust that a nuclear war would cause.

Xi must also realize that any philosophical connection to Putin inevitably makes China look BAD to the ROTW.

[sheshe2]

32. Makes sense.

[Cha]

41. I know.. we're teetering.. I

can only imagine how our Democratic Leaders are trying to save Ukraine but not start WWIII.

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Any Good News is so Welcme

[ShazzieB]

28. I didn't expect this, either.

Not in the least. This is one of those times when it feels good to be wrong!

[timvrip]

54. I've been thinking all along

that China would start flexing some muscle in this.

They have more to lose than any country if it comes to nuclear war. 1.439 billion people.

[herding cats]

5. Wonderful news!!

[herding cats]

6. This seems significant to me. 👇👇👇

From the article:

New Development Bank, a Shanghai-based lender in Asia with much higher exposure to Russia, also announced on Thursday that it had put new transactions in Russia on hold in light of the Ukraine conflict.

This feels like an 'or else' moment.

[Cha]

22. Mahalo for that, Cat.

[Cha]

23. PS.. I wonder if they sense a certain degree..

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[herding cats]

46. Probably this and it's escalating and messing with their taking Taiwan.

China wants us worried and apprehensive to intervene on their plans, but we've rallied the world behind us on Ukraine. I'm not sure they expected that level of United front? Either way, it doesn't bode well for their long term plans.

[paleotn]

7. That may tip the balance....

Amongst the oligarchs who keep Putin in power. That and getting tired of their bros being suicided.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Didn't see that coming. Great news.

[SergeStorms]

9. What the Chinese say....

and what they actually do, sometimes don't mesh.

Trust, but verify.

[democratsruletheday]

14. fair post SS....and I agree with you

BUT if true this is monumentally a BFD and excellent news. Let's hope it can be confirmed. Man, that would be awesome.

[True Dough]

64. I have my suspicions as well

Say one thing publicly, do something else behind the scenes. Whatever the Chinese government feels is in its best interest.

[BamaRefugee]

65. Truth.

[Irish_Dem]

10. China likes making money and is worried it could be hurt by its association with Putin?

It wanted to partner with Putin and shift world power to autocracies.

But Putin is becoming a liability?

Nuclear war, erratic behavior and terrorizing the world is not good for business.

And it does not convince the world that autocracies are a great form of government.

[TheProle]

11. Some perspective

The lending pause appears to reflect the AIIB’s assertion of itself as a multilateral institution with a global shareholder base, rather than a statement to condemn the war. China’s government founded the bank as an alternative to Western-backed multilateral lenders, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. China holds about 27% of the voting power in the bank, which has a Chinese president.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-03/card/beijing-based-multilateral-lender-suspends-russia-related-activities-62Z9MLgC5yhNDWOXX0c4

[crickets]

15. +1

eta non paywall link: https://archive.ph/TAVy4

[smb]

33. Actually, That's Even Better

Politically-motivated positions can turn on a dime, positions motivated by self-interest tend to hold steady.

[TheProle]

34. Fair point and agree

It may fortify its effectiveness.

We just shouldn’t kid ourselves that China is taking some sort of moral stand.

[uponit7771]

48. +1,They're not they see Putrus getting his ass kicked

[Kittycatkat]

12. Stunning news!

[monkeyman1]

13. hanging out the laundry !! A certain person is not going to like this ????

[Zambero]

17. Apparently North Korea is enough of a handful

Propping up yet another rogue state threatening global stability would be a bridge too far.

[PufPuf23]

18. That China has apparently made a positive move towards stopping the Russian violent assault

of Ukraine is good news but will take more for me to be comfortable with China's posture.

Been concerned and not observed much discussion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the members (like China, India) were those that abstained from the GA UN vote.

[wiggs]

20. In the global outreach by Biden re Russia, I'm SURE the administration has talked to

China about how supporting Russia would not be in their best interests. Not surprised if significant pressure was exerted, since China is key.

[wendyb-NC]

24. Very good news

Thank you.

[AntiFascist]

26. If only they would threaten to invade Siberia

[roamer65]

31. +1000

[58Sunliner]

30. Wow, that's it? How bold and brave.

[pazzyanne]

35. Thank you, God! nt

[Ziggysmom]

36. China has no problem when their comrades commit atrocities shrouded in secrecy. But the

attacks on Ukraine are playing out live upon the world stage. Supporting this killing spree of pootie's makes China lose face, lose respect.

[uponit7771]

49. +1, Ukraine's PR offensive against Putrid is a text book

[calimary]

63. It LOOKS bad.

“Shrouded in secrecy” gives them a form of “plausible deniability”.

But all this awful shit is playing out “live and in color” on TV, network, cable, and local, 24 hours a day, so there’s almost no way to avoid seeing it. And newspaper front pages and magazine covers too. If you stroll past any newsstand, it’s unavoidable. On every shelf and in multiple languages. All over everywhere. Wide open. And couldn’t have more graphic and indelible messaging on the irresistible contrast differentiating the good guys from the bad guys.

This one’s easy. Very glaring and clear-cut. The BIG BAD Putin aggressors and the targeted victim nation full of sympathetic common-folk figures, the defiant little David versus the big bad muscular meanie,Goliath. We’re all hard-wired from childhood on that story which makes the message perfectly clear about the heroic virtue of the underdog. And an underdog positioning IS GOING TO gain sympathy.

[TygrBright]

37. So Xi saw the bus coming, and stuck his foot out in front of P*... LOL n/t

[FoxNewsSucks]

38. I doubt they're actually concerned about the atrocities

Just putin's ability to repay any loans.

[Martin68]

40. Insightful observation.

[Martin68]

39. I love it. Just the way Hitler betrayed Russia during WWII. Putin must be fumin'.

[PatrickforB]

42. This is a genuine surprise.

I would have never have thought this.

[lindysalsagal]

43. Ok, but, what's the source? WAPO would make it a headline if they had a good source.

[Wingus Dingus]

45. Financial Times.

[calimary]

44. Maybe China is starting to hear the same things about Putin's mental "stability" that the rest of us

are hearing?

Maybe they've already seen enough, in their own right, to be convinced that Vlad's an increasingly bad bet?

Picking sides? And if so, then for how long?


BOY do I wish I could be a fly on the wall... But the only problem is - WHICH wall?

SOOOOOO MANY walls! So little time...

[BobTheSubgenius]

47. China has a lot of skin in the int'l commerce area.

They don't live by dogma alone any more.

[C Moon]

50. wow!

[ismnotwasm]

51. Whoa

Wow.

[blue-wave]

52. Pooty becomes more

lonely by the hour.

[BadgerMom]

53. K & R

[Rhiannon12866]

55. Twitter replies:

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[Deminpenn]

56. Jmho, but this would not have happened without the

express approval of the Chinese government. Maybe the Chinese government even suggested the move to the bank.

[smb]

57. They May Be Hoping To Weaken Russia So Severely They Can Take Disputed Territory In Siberia nt

[Deminpenn]

59. What with the vast majority of Russia's military concentrated

in and around Ukraine, China could waltz in and take any disputed territory without even firing a shot if they wanted. And what would Putin do since China is politically aligned with him?

[Layzeebeaver]

58. Russia is a third rate player at the moment

Has China finally woken up to the possibility of a "multiple superpower" world that does not include Russia perhaps?

If the world crushes Russia through economic measures, then it's China, the EU and the U.S. that are left.

One could make a jump and suggest that the two powers that will matter the most will be China and the E.U. while the U.S. will continue to deal with internal issues

(Frankly, If I were China, I would be very happy to watch the U.S. and Russia continually grind each other down over the next generation).

The next resource war will include Africa - and China is already well established there. After climate, this is the next priority.

[dalton99a]

60. Evidently they're telling people to support Russia

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-china-seeks-to-unify-public-support-1a0fbda7db0554ca40569470fa48db6c

China seeks to unify public in support for Russia
By ZEN SOO

...

Ruling party control of all Chinese media and intensive internet censorship make it hard to gauge public opinion. But what the party allows online and requires media to publish make clear what it wants the public to think.

Media outlets were told last week to post only pro-Russian content and to censor anti-Russian or pro-Western views, according to a copy of instructions posted on the social media account of the newspaper Beijing News. The post was later deleted.

Online and in social media, expressions of sympathy for Ukraine and support for Russia appear but not criticism of Moscow.

State media repeat Beijing’s position that the United States and its European allies are to blame for the Ukraine war because they failed to respond to Russian concerns that its democratic neighbor should be barred from joining NATO, the Western military alliance.

[Ohioboy]

61. K&R

[BlueWavePsych]

62. Not quite, but getting there.

[cstanleytech]

66. Actually that's simply a financially wise investment strategy.

After all if they were really appalled they would have condemned it but they are not because they themselves are guilty over the same thing with Tibet.