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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUnder New Scrutiny: China's Nuclear Pledge to Ukraine
Beijings 2013 promise to protect Ukraine in a nuclear attack appears to now further muddy its stance on Russias invasionhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/under-new-scrutiny-chinas-nuclear-pledge-to-ukraine-11647007200
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An unusual and mostly forgotten pledge Chinese President Xi Jinping signed eight years ago that China would protect Ukraine in the event of a nuclear attack is getting fresh attention following Russias invasion of its Eastern European neighbor.
Chinas 2013 promise to Ukraine of unspecified security guarantees echoed the kind of commitment nuclear-armed statesincluding Chinahave long made to nonnuclear ones, assurances that the U.S., U.K. and Russia had earlier also extended directly to Ukraine for relinquishing Soviet-era weapons. Yet Beijing appeared to be promising more than it had in past commitments, and why it singled out Ukraine for such an arrangement has confounded nuclear experts ever since.
Now, its existence appears to further muddy Beijings policy stance in the context of Russias recent invasion of Ukraine and Moscows warning last month it was raising the alert level of its nuclear forces.
Its a promise of a nuclear-weapon state to stand up for a nonnuclear-weapon state being threatened by a nuclear-weapon state, says Gregory Kulacki, a Japan-based analyst who focuses on nuclear issues and China for the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists. It means something and it should be pointed out to China, he says.
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Under New Scrutiny: China's Nuclear Pledge to Ukraine (Original Post)
Celerity
Mar 2022
OP
China will honor this, pоссия will "melt as wax before a fire" (Psalm 68), US will spark with China
sprinkleeninow
Mar 2022
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sprinkleeninow
(20,132 posts)1. China will honor this, pоссия will "melt as wax before a fire" (Psalm 68), US will spark with China
inna new romance.
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druidity33
(6,435 posts)4. This may be true...
but the WSJ often has an anti-liberal bias. I never intentionally read that paper and always look for independent verification if i find myself reading a story by them.