Despite all latest among Washington’s repeat warnings to Beijing against strategic or military cooperation with Moscow, China is now pledging to “join forces” with “like-minded” partner Russia to defend national interests. The statement came by the close of the first day of the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee Wang Yi’s trip to Moscow.
“The People’s Republic of China is ready to join forces with Russia to decisively stand up for national interests and promote mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas,” Wang said Tuesday while meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev. On Wednesday he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared a warm and cooperative visit.
“During a virtual meeting at the end of last year our leaders [Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin] came up with a plan for further development of bilateral relations. We are ready to join forces with the Russian side, in accordance with the high-level agreements, to decisively stand up for national interests and virtues, and promote mutually beneficial cooperation in all areas,” the Chinese diplomat’s statement said.
He additionally said China will “together with all like-minded partners further promote the development of the international order in the direction of equitable development.”
“It’s necessary to unlock the potential of this mechanism, and it’s also necessary to develop new steps of strategic interaction in accordance with the changing situation in order to provide the necessary guarantees for national development,” Wang added. “I want to fully join your appreciation of the strategic cooperation between the two countries.”
The positive and glowing statements amid the high-level visit comes at a crucial juncture in which Moscow needs a powerful backer in its corner which also holds a seat on the national security council. The war in Ukraine is days away from reaching its one-year mark since the invasion began.
The Kremlin praised Wang’s stance in response, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcoming “China’s balanced position on the Ukraine issue.” He further declared that “ours and China’s vision is much the same” concerning the crisis.
However, it will be interesting to see if any further specifics on Ukraine emerged from the China side. So far, Wang appears to be advancing the official party line which has been somewhat ambiguous, also while in Moscow saying that China will maintain its “objective and impartial stance” on the Ukraine crisis. Toward this end, he said that China “appreciates Russia’s willingness to resolve the crisis through negotiations,” according to TASS.
Beijing has of late expressed its desire for warring parties to reach negotiated peaceful settlement in Ukraine. This could be focus of President Xi Jinping’s upcoming trip to Russia. While news of the future trip broke Tuesday, President Putin confirmed Wednesday that it will happen – a very significant symbolic first since the Ukraine invasion.
When will President Xi come to Russia?
At a meeting in Moscow, Vladimir Putin tells Beijing top foreign policy official, Wang Yi, that he's waiting for a visit from the Chinese leader https://t.co/UBXo5A04Ai pic.twitter.com/zjHDe38r4R
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) February 22, 2023
“We are expecting the president of the People’s Republic of China to visit Russia. We agreed on this earlier,” Putin said as he welcomed Wang Yi in the Kremlin. The Russian leaders praised the “new frontiers” that both countries are forging together:
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that China’s Xi Jinping would visit Russia, saying relations had reached “new frontiers” amid U.S. concerns that Beijing could provide material support to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We understand that [China] has a domestic political agenda, but we assume that as we tackle all the issues related to this agenda – with the National People’s Congress, which is made up of Chinese deputies, who must also resolve serious personnel issues – we will implement our plans for personal meetings as well, which will give an additional impetus to our relations,” the Russian president added. A specific timetable has yet to be publicized, but US policy makers along with the rest of NATO and other UN Security Council members will without doubt be watching closely.
Meanwhile, Putin is on the offensive against his enemies near and far…
⚡️When we are together, we have no equal, strength is in unity — Putin pic.twitter.com/JxaL0FSXBE
— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) February 22, 2023
And concerning Zelensky’s prior day’s comments on the prospect of WW3 given deepening Moscow-Beijing relations…
Zelensky: if China allies with Russia there will be WW3
Following above statement, Putin and Xi have started cooking their own food..#UkraineWar #Ukraina pic.twitter.com/nC8B6JKtW1
— Akshat Deora (@tigerAkD) February 20, 2023
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Rabobank previews China’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine in the analysis below:
Relatedly, Friday will see China’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine. Any such attempt should be applauded, but the question is on whose terms. Western observers remain skeptical the plan will see any concrete details, while rumors are also flying China may threaten to do for Russia what the US is doing for Ukraine, amplified by the news that Xi Jinping will visit Moscow soon.
Logically, assuming China is not going to dump Russia, which it won’t, there are few potential outcomes:
- China offers nothing new. However, this would underline that it remains a bystander having bullets fired at it by the White House, who just warned that Chinese firms that try to circumvent sanctions on Russia will face “repercussions”: like the ones forbidding the flow of Iranian oil?; or
- China “escalates to deescalate” with an implied threat to stand behind Russia, in which case:
- The US accepts a grand deal to climb down and partition Ukraine. That would mean a Western retreat on an historic scale that could snowball into a broader partition of the geopolitical and geoeconomic architecture – and the US won’t want that. Yet it would also allow the US to pivot towards Taiwan – and China won’t want that; or
- The US reacts as if ‘China just bought a ticket for the Titanic after seeing the movie’, and the geopolitical and geoeconomic architecture shatters.
In short, the most logical probability is that neither the China peace plan nor the upcoming Xi visit to Moscow provide anything new. In which case, Ukraine escalation, inflation, and global polarisation it is. Yet the fact that we have a war in Ukraine at all should underline that the fat tail-risks are of something even worse – a scenario we originally flagged in our Ukraine metacrisis report in early 2022.
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Finally someone sticking it to pedo Joe.
President Clueless will be calling on the Kenyan to see if he can borrow that stick that is used to draw the line in the sand.
Zelensky: if China allies with Russia there will be WW3
Translation : NWO / deep state globalists / Luciferian secret societies will mount a false flag attack.
“The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time.” | General Albert Pike in an 1871 letter
Just because this over 100 years old I would not make the mistake that it is an outdated idea
While Pike describes an Islam vs. Christian divide, an East – West divide will work too.
As long as they get to rule as ‘gods’ over the ashes.
Better make sure anything you need that comes from China (almost everything) you have enough of to last for a long time. We haven’t seen any true shortages yet.
Too bad for the US, NATO and the Woke West. This will include most of Western Europe and their Socialist governments and, unfortunately the peons.
Those big ‘ol oceans will not provide much protection anymore.
If it is possible, Zelensky must know that he is sitting on ground zero; Biden et. al., the minions including MIC may as well stock up on Depend® supplies. But, I have little faith that any of the elite arschlöcher realize that they/us are not invincible.
Nope, the line of feces and rainbow colored utopia was sold and gobbled up rapidly a long time ago.
Reality maybe knocking loudly for the dogs of war now.
I don’t know if a severe derriere whupping is going to be at all pleasant for anyone. It would be nice to see TPTB, the fags/pederasts (is there a difference, really?), the Medical Czars, Feminists, Communist teachers and Commie Professors be vaporized, starved, ‘glowing’, but I don’t believe for a second that the ‘good guys’ will be spared either. Actually, it is much more likely that it’ll be just another case of New Boss same as the Old Boss, if you happen to live long enough to see that day.
As my son used to say: “Let’s play another game of Risk dad, let’s play it again.”
What surprises me the most is that Putin would join with China, when China is eventually going to try to overthrow them. China seems to have already infiltrated the US enough to bring us down from within. Now, the question I have is if the war in Ukraine, is actually a front for a war with Russia on China’s behalf?
Russia might have made common purpose with the West if they hadn’t been rebuffed for 30 years by america and the europeons who barely – if at all – consider Russians human. The globalist cabal has made it known that they want Russia carved up (American protestations to the contrary notwithstanding), so who should Russia align with – the distant people who pledge their hatred out loud or the respectful people with whom they share a continent?
Isn’t the game called “Last Man Standing”?
To me this is not much different than the Sino-Soviet alignment of past decades, only the impetus seems to be counterbalancing the US Empire rather than global domination. We live in the shadow of China in the Philippines, and while I can attest they are a bully, I have not seen them overthrow other countries. Their aim seems to be to outlast other countries, and of course undermining them in any way possible.
As I mentioned in another thread, I happened upon two retards – Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly – talking today. Hannity was having a cow because China has been overflying Taiwan. O’Reilly said that was no big deal – they’ve been doing that for years. Hannity replied that China is “violating Taiwan’s territorial integrity” (as though Taiwan were a country). Then he bellowed that China recently even sailed a ship through the Taiwan Straight.
The fact that Hannity has any audience at all shows how screwed we are.
Something has been bothering me about this war in Ukraine. It is obvious to everyone at this point that Ukraine cannot win, and that Russia is going to overwhelm them. And yet NATO and the US, despite the Rand report and the advice of several military advisors are sticking to the delusion that somehow continuing this war is going to be beneficial to them. They seem totally uninterested in negotiations despite Ukraine’s heavy losses.. Why? Do they have something planned we are not understanding?
The plan from the beginning, has been to weaken Russia, and by doing so to subjugate Russia to the US homogeny.
To this point their plan has failed so why stick with it? Then it occurred to me that perhaps they were planning on expanding the war, to a new level, to double down on their losing bet… big. What if they are now planning on expanding the war to Poland?
In Putin’s speech, he gave a warning that any troops, in uniform or not, within the battlefield were legal combatants, and that is how Russia would see them. By international law, any attack launched from Poland, makes the place that attack was launched from, part of the field of battle even if it is within Poland. By rights, that included the US troops guiding the HYMARS from Poland.
If an F16 takes off from Poland, attacks Russian troops, and returns to base, Russia is within its rights to attack that airfield, and then Poland is officially in the war. NATO troops pour into Poland and begin moving to the front lines, with the intention making the war so costly for Russia, they will agree to withdraw from Ukraine and NATO can claim victory.
This actually seems like the only course of action at this point that could possibly turn the tide, prevent an embarrassing loss in Ukraine, and save the political careers of the politicians that have supported the war from the beginning.
Is that what Biden’s visit was really about? Is that what the meetings between Russia and China are about? And is that the reason Zelenski made the odd statement about China joining the war and starting WW3? In addition, China posted a very damning statement from its Department of Foreign Affairs 2 days ago.. It is titled US Hegemony and Its Perils
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html
This document reads very much like a complaint justifying war. In it, China accuses the US of many crimes and of attempting to subjugate the entire world to its homogony. It would certainly be understandable if China decided it was in their best interests to fight with Russia that to allow Russia to be weakened and then have to face the US and NATO by itself.
As I put all these things together in my mind, I felt a terrible feeling of dread come over me as the pieces began to fit.
Would Biden and his cabinet of warmongers actually play chicken with WW3?
About 13 years ago an old buddy was telling how his son was with a group in Arizona that was remotely launching drone attacks in the Middle East. By international law would that have made Arizona part of the battlefield?
Interestingly, one of the key skills for the drone kids was to have been adept at video games in their younger years.
What, exactly, will Nato attack Russia with? It is my understanding that Germany and France have enough supplies for 3 days of combat and then that is it – they are out of the war.
Weapon systems take time to master and integrate into being part of a military machine. For example, the M1 Abrams needs ~4 man-hours of service for every hour of operation. To operate them, you need a highly trained crew and an incredibly large support operation that includes everything from mechanics to fuel handlers. You have to incorporate an entirely new supply chain into your existing supply operations. That said, by Nato giving up its weapons piecemeal to untrained crews, it turns them from being a valuable part of a nation’s military to disposable items. After all, I had 8 years to see how much of a beating military equipment can take and it isn’t very much.
Putin was smart to take it slow and allow for Nato to send its weapons and munitions to Ukraine so as to be discarded by untrained crews at the first sign of a problem.
On your last sentence:
“Would”??