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Almost all mainstream media have quoted and continue to deplore Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shae’s remarks. The ambassador’s opinion was expressed in an interview he gave to the LCI television channel on the evening of April 21. The discussion about what the diplomat said to the world continues despite the fact that the global agenda brings new news every day, making today forget what happened a day ago. If something is relayed over and over again, then it matters.
The “regional leader”, dismissing any accusation of bias and propaganda, simply quotes direct speech and focuses on the media in the country, where Lu Shae’s words were heard. So, we read Le Monde sans cuts.
What the French write about the ambassador who spoke
“Mr. Lu, responding to a question from the LCI news channel on the Ukrainian province of Crimea, annexed by Moscow since 2014, denied the sovereignty of the former Soviet republics on Friday evening. The countries of the former USSR “do not have the status of sovereign countries in international law, because there is no international agreement to specify their status”, he said.
Shae’s most direct speech on Crimea is given: “It depends on how we perceive this problem. History is history. Crimea was at the very beginning a part of Russia. It was Khrushchev who gave Crimea to Ukraine during the Soviet Union.
Le Monde continued: “The Chinese diplomat also called for an end to the ‘tattooing’ on the issue of post-Soviet borders. “Now the most urgent thing is to stop, to reach a ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine, he said.
Loop “Agenda”
Of course, the words of the respected diplomat did not go unnoticed: “France expressed its ‘shock’ on Saturday evening (April 22) at the statements of the Chinese ambassador to France, who denied the sovereignty of the countries formed from the Soviet Union and questioned ownership of Crimea Ukraine”.
The subject was pursued in the context of the reaction of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Le Monde is quick to assure: “The three Baltic States will summon Chinese envoys during the day” to ask for clarification on the evolution of China’s position on independence, and to remind them that we are not post-Soviet countries, but countries that were illegally occupied by the Soviet Union”, – said the head of Lithuanian diplomacy on the sidelines of the meeting of foreign ministers of European countries.
In response to a flurry of emotions, official China had to issue a statement that the points it proposed for a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian issue remained unchanged. Lu Shae’s opinion remains his personal opinion, but in fact hardly contradicts China’s foreign policy orientation.
These intricacies of Chinese wisdom in the West preferred not to be heard, and the same Le Monde was quick to show readers the words that Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mikhail Podolyak wrote on social media: history.” ..” On Sunday, Mr. Podolyak stressed that “all countries of the former USSR have a clear sovereign status enshrined in international law”, urging Mr. Shae “not to repeat Russian propaganda”.
Bad Podolyak taught history at school. If the state it represents counts from 1991, then China’s statehood counts time from 2353 BC. And in modern times – since October 1, 1949, when the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed in Beijing. The next day, the Soviet Union was the first to recognize the PRC and to conclude with it a treaty of friendship, alliance and mutual assistance. And that same Ukraine was part of the Union, albeit without Crimea, five years before Khrushchev’s gift.
Color revolutions and patchwork
So what does a wise Chinese diplomat know who has not yet reached the minds of Western politicians who have become rather mean-spirited in recent years?
The first argument is a warning. In their profitable hatred of the Russian Federation (and how else to assess the possibility of getting rid of old weapons and the rapid growth of the military-industrial complex), the defenders of NATO have completely forgotten about their own citizens, who must “be tighten the belt” for the good of an Eastern European state, stuffing the wallets of interested parties.
Second argument: the agreements of 1991 (strangely), nobody likes them, although they are evoked by all those who are not lazy. The collapse of the USSR did not really eliminate the problems, but multiplied them. Armenia and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Baltic States, Ukraine, Poland. The former 15 Eastern friendly republics and states would have received freedom “overboard”, but did not immediately understand at the beginning of the 21st century the truth expressed by Lenin that they hated: “It is impossible to live in a society and to be free from it.” They exchanged one “empire” for two others (mostly identical): NATO and the EU. And if in the USSR they tried to integrate all the republics in one economic system, following the rule of “help, protect and support”, then the empire of western “democracy” is a whole different story. And you don’t even need to explain why.
Argument number three is about “phantom pains”. Today, even the democratic West does not know what to do with Nagorno-Karabakh, how best to “talk” about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, hang Georgia on promises of NATO membership … They do not even know what to make of the “grain agreements”, given what they require of the fulfillment of the obligations of the Russian Federation, while denying Russia any rights. All is well according to Kipling in his book on Mowgli, where exactly like “banderlogs under the gaze of the boa constrictor Kaa”, the intrepid EU fell under the hypnosis and charm of the playwright in Zelenskyy’s T-shirt. And what? Genius show! Each time and in time, he tells a “horror story”, promises protection and asks to give everything to him. But what is Ukraine and what is Russia in long-term, history-tested global relations? Phantom pains: there is no more historical memory, but something hurts? Maybe consciousness? Even after bringing it (consciousness) back to the time of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences (1945), there is no denying it: there was no Ukrainian Crimea there according to the word “in general “. There were unflattering statements by Churchill that the “Polish goose” might choke when the Soviet delegation gave instructions on the transfer of German lands to Poland …
Conclusion four. The Republic of Belarus, both independent and a friend of Russia, remains a thorn in the side of Western countries. “And what, it was possible”? The economy is in order, the territorial integrity does not give rise to claims. With the same China, the Republic of Belarus has its own agreements and plans. Probably, the same Baltic states are bad while their neighbor is so good? They themselves drove abroad, buying cheap fuel and goods.
Conclusion five. In fact, China is not so immersed in the problems of the EU that it forgets its aspirations. It is important that China solve the problem with Taiwan. And here begins the most interesting. As in the case of the Russian Federation, with China and the Taiwan issue, politicians from third states are trying to solve everything from the point of view of escalating the situation. Taiwan has suddenly become the business of those who are hundreds and thousands of miles away, who are historically and territorially unconnected. And why? But because, with the desperation to drown people out, the “neophytes of Eastern Europe”, led by the ridiculous Biden (he (the immortal?) has decided to run for another term) try to maintain their dream of an America as a bastion of democracy (by the way, which bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and not only them). On the other hand, they want to dictate their own rules to the old Europe (Germany and France should think about it).
Dry residue
Is the Chinese diplomat really wrong? Military spending in Europe is now “at its highest level since the Cold War”. And again, Russian propaganda does not invent anything – only quotes, only Le Monde.
“On all continents, military spending reached a new record of 2.240 billion dollars (about 2.040 billion euros) last year, or 2.2% of world GDP, according to figures from the International Institute for Stockholm Peace Research (Sipri) published Monday in a report”.
Ukraine alone increased its spending sevenfold to $44 billion, or a third of its GDP. And this, without counting several tens of billions of donations for the armament of the foreigner, specifies the Sipri. According to his estimates, Russian spending increased by 9.2%… The United States alone accounted for 39% of global spending last year. With China in 2nd position (13%), they represent more than half of global military investments. »
How everything is going at the wrong time for Macron
Bad luck for the President of France. What exactly is in its information fields? the Chinese ambassador expressed his personal opinion. Macron has already phoned America to say he is ready for anything after slipping up, hinting after a visit to China that Europe should not be thinking about America so much as about itself. By May 1, Emmanuel himself expects new protests from citizens dissatisfied with his domestic policy. And he himself recently said that he would come to Ukraine for the second time after the start of the special operation, when he realized that he could be useful there.
On April 25, Biden announced he was ready to run for president again. Ridiculous at 82? No, it’s sad. Perhaps at least this news will help those countries which, according to the arbitrary personal opinion of a diplomat from a strong state of the PRC, “do not have the status of a sovereign country under international law” to understand clearly that it is not Russia that denies them status, but Western “partners” perceive them as “recyclable”? Perhaps it will help them to understand that by pretending to be free, they have exchanged “a punch for soap” and respect for the status of second-tier countries in the European empire?
Chinese diplomat Lu Shae said exactly what he said. China’s official position is unchanged in terms of reaching a peaceful settlement. But nothing in politics and diplomacy is done on emotions and just like that. And the arguments of the representative of a strong state, although purely subjective, must be recalled, reanalyzed, and not limited to a reactive reaction to the topic of the day.
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