Tribune. In 2005, Robert Zoellick, then US Deputy Secretary of State, “said China, could she become a” responsible actor “?” Listening to Chinese leaders since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, ON may doubt that this proposal happens today as some optimists call it for their wishes.
Day after day, the spokespersons of the regime colported with contrapies, then relayed by Chinese social networks. Thus, on March 8, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggested that the United States could control “dangerous biological laboratories” in Ukraine. How long can Beijing continue to accuse the United States and NATO to have set fire to powders while claiming to respect the territorial sovereignty of countries – including Ukraine? For a great power aspiring in the first place of the podium, we do better in terms of responsibility.
The relationship between Beijing and Moscow is “solid as a rock,” says Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, especially since the signing of the “privileged partnership” on 4 February between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. A friendship “stronger than an alliance”, according to the number one Chinese. Since Prorusse propaganda being long established, so it is probably too late to denounce the horror of aggression. The Chinese aficionados of Vladimir Putin would misunderstand such a turnaround.
Hereditary enemy
Allies in their aversion to the enemy now hereditary – the United States, accused of being “unipolar” in the name of an “alleged universality” – the two autocrats practice one and the other opportunism to better defend their systems. In contrast to Woodrow Wilson, the US President who declared in 1917 wanted to “make the world safer for democracy”, Xi and Putin want to reinforce their authoritarian power over the duration.
Notable differences remain. By attacking Ukraine, Putin runs after the reconquest of a Tsarist Russia not found. For years now, Russia has been more like a “disruptive” power when China of XI targets global supremacy. These are revisionist powers of different types: Russia destroys, seeks to infiltrate, to influence public opinions, supports rupture regimes with the international community (Syrian Bachar al-Assad in Beieolusse Alexandre Lukashenko) opposed to the values carried by the Democracies.
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