Beijing is blowing hot and cold on the war in Ukraine.
On the one hand with a telephone conversation between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelensky, after more than a year of silence from Beijing, to talk about peace negotiations, on the other hand with the declarations of the Chinese ambassador in Paris calling into question Ukraine's sovereignty over Crimea, an issue at the heart of the conflict triggered by Moscow.
Behind this pas de deux, the understanding between Russia and the People's Republic of China should not be overlooked.
The interests of the two countries are linked.
Their general intention was unveiled by the Russian foreign policy doctrine, made public in mid-March: to
“eliminate”
(the term is radical)
Western
“dominance” .
This elimination involves questioning the world order inherited from the end of the Cold War.
The statements of the Chinese ambassador in Paris must therefore be interpreted not as a deviation from language but rather as a trial balloon in…
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