China Is About to Make a Big Mistake by Supporting Russia

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

China is about to make a big mistake.

Faced with the choice between playing a constructive role in helping to resolve the Ukraine crisis, or helping support Russia’s brutal attack on that country, China seems committed to a course that could plunge the world into a new Cold War.

On Monday, US officials led by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met in Rome with a Chinese delegation led by his counterpart, Yang Jiechi. While a central topic of the seven hour-long discussion was Ukraine, the meeting covered a wide range of topics including North Korea, Taiwan, and on-going efforts to manage strategic risks confronting the two nations.

A source familiar with what transpired in the meeting told me that their sense was that “the Chinese at the highest levels have thrown in with Putin” and that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “trying to play it neutral in public but back Putin substantially in the background—economically, financially, and now perhaps militarily. I don’t think they want to play a mediation role.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-is-about-to-make-a-big-mistake-by-supporting-russia/ar-AAV3BS7

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Autocrats tend to make mistakes like this.

[empedocles]

2. Xi may see an opportunity to help putin, and make putin, his own trumplike '____ holster'

[brewens]

3. Puts Tucker on the same side as China. That's interesting. Of course, if it was a bad thing, the RW

would say "Communist China".

[Chainfire]

4. China can do whatever it wants to do, we sold our country to them

bit by bit, business by business. We should have made our own damn stuff instead of making billionaires.

[PortTack]

5. Worrisome....but many other sources saying the opposite. Maybe Xi is lying too.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2022-03-14/china-signals-disinterest-in-providing-weapons-to-russia-for-brutal-ukraine-campaign

as Russia's attack on its western neighbor drags into a third bloody week, the bloom is off the Xi-Putin bromance. Behind the rhetorical facade, Chinese officials are reassessing the value of the Russian entente, distancing themselves from Putin and scrambling to reposition China as a neutral observer of the Ukraine conflict.
https://fortune.com/2022/03/11/china-russia-sanctions-xi-jinping-putin-rescue-save/

[Martin68]

6. I agree. China only supported Russia because of their claim on Taiwan. It hasn't worked out as they

had hoped. I'd suggest China may have to reconsider their approach to Taiwan. China's goal is not to become an international pariah.