What does Putin have to offer China that makes it worth alienating the US and the EU? | DW News

It has now been said that China's relationship with the United States will be one of the defining factors of the 21st century. Relations between the two superpowers

have

been strained in recent years over a number of issues including accusations of trade espionage and human rights and Taiwan with China's national people. In the current Congress, the country's Foreign Minister suggested that the United States was trying to suppress his country and create problems in Taiwan. Wang also made a good case for Beijing's close relationship with Moscow throughout much of the Cold War. Soviet Russia and Communist China disagreed, but especially.

Since the start of the Ukraine war, the two authoritarian neighbors

have

been forging deeper ties and now appear to be positioning themselves as geopolitical counterweights to the annual parley of the United States and China. The National People's Congress likes to highlight the country's rise on the international stage as China plays a larger global role Beijing has sought to match its growing economic strength with diplomatic strength, an area in which it is interested in playing a larger role. is mediating international crises, including the Ukraine war, but while China says it maintains a neutral stance and tries to act honestly, the broker has refused to condemn the invasion and Europeans believe Beijing is using the conflict for its own purposes. economic and geopolitical.

So vital is China to Moscow now that President Vladimir Putin has described the relationship between Beijing and Russia as borderless, since for China itself we are ready to cooperate in all areas we do not have any restrictions this also applies to technology military while we think about the future the future world order in guaranteeing our security leaving aside traditional buying and selling relationships we are thinking about the future thinking Regarding technology, China has given its special envoy for Eurasian Affairs room for maneuver to seek a political solution to the war. Over the past two years, we have never abandoned our efforts to promote peace and we have never stopped our efforts to promote the talks that China has had.

In-depth communications with other countries, including Russia and Ukraine, to play a constructive role in addressing the crisis war is considered a very pro-Moscow Ser and trust in Beijing has further eroded as Europe intensifies scrutiny of its trade with China. Russian imports from China last year rose 65% from pre-war levels. China is reportedly channeling key defense technology to the Russian war effort through neighboring countries. To get around sanctions this week, the head of Russia's space agency said he is working on plans with China on ways to deliver and install a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. The Borderless relationship extends to the stars.

Journalist Fabian Ketma in Beijing is following the National People's Congress and we asked him

what

Chinese Foreign Minister Wangi meant when he spoke of a new paradigm of great power relations. What he said is that China and Russia now maintain, in quotes, a historical friendship and this friendship has created a new paradigm of relations between countries, they are a paradigmatic moment that is based on non-alignment, non-confrontation and

does

not point to any third party. and I am quoting here, of course one could argue how credible such a statement is given that this at this very moment Russia is continuing its full scale war against Ukraine, but still let me give you an explanation of

what

I think they mean Wangi and the Chinese government with this statement in the eyes of Beijing.

The United States is pushing for a cold. war approach and continues with a kind of bloc building and China is seeking a more multipolar world order, of course critics and also independent experts are arguing that actually what China is seeking is the hegemony of the West, led by the United States, will be replaced by the new world power, uh, China, um, so I think that would be my interpretation of our statement this morning. Now let's do an analysis with Velina Chakarova, she is an expert on relations between Ino and Russia and the founder of it. from the geopolitical consulting firm face Miss CH Chakarova, how would you say relations between China and Russia have changed since the war in Ukraine?

Well, what we are seeing right now is, in fact, the manifestation of a new modus vendi of strategic coordination between China and Russia. term Dragon Bear uh already in 2015 uh over the last 10 years they have deepened the relationship in all strategic domains uh from Raw Materials and energy uh to uh meanwhile, the military industrial complex and space we heard last week that they are planning a nuclear uh plant on the moon in the period until 2035, so what we are seeing now and I maintain that the beginning of the Russian war against Ukraine was practically the manifestation of this mod, it is not a strategic alliance, it is not an Anon, but it is certainly a kind of new modus how to govern, if you will, over the global South and how to really create a geopolitical and economic counterweight to the West in February of last year Putin and she met in Beijing declared that their partnership had no limits, is it fair to say? the Chinese president provided cover for Putin to launch his war.

I don't think that's fair to say. The Chinese have probably been kept in the dark about Russia's true intentions regarding the so-called limited army. operation, but we can safely assume that Russia would not have launched, say, a full-scale five-way war against Ukraine if it had not relied on China's long-term comprehensive support, in doing so by launching this Beware of Fools War practically It was triggered by Russia, if you will, the beginning of this cold war 2.0 between the United States, on the one hand, and China and Truss, on the other, although China would actually have preferred to maintain normalization vis-à-vis the United States.

United States at least for some um let's say five to 10 years to prepare accordingly, so we're already in this new kind of period of international relations, so what's in it for China? What exactly

does

President Putin have to

offer

? he

makes

it

worth

further

alienating

Beijing's biggest trading partners, such as the US and the EU. Well, the most important thing we need to understand is China's worst-case scenario, which is that the United States could apply the Nixon kiss approach to Russia in a similar way to what they did with Russia. China in the '70s, so China wants to avoid any possibility of, say, having the Russians in the American orbit in, say, the future.

The second important thing we need to understand is that the way China perceives the current United States and let's say Western policies that you know more or less both Republicans and Democrats agree that they have to somehow stop the rise of China, so Russia is practically kind of a geopolitical match made in heaven because it provides the commodities that China needs. the largest importer of energy and food products, but let's say more. Let's overlook an important component is that Russia also

offer

s entry to the Arctic. With climate change we will see a major shift towards the new Mar timeline, the Northern Sea Route, in the future. and China is by no means an Arctic nation, so you will actually get access through Russia.

Ultimately, it's a kind of coordination, let's say, um um, in which both create this counterweight to the, let's say, Western way of doing geopolitics, but also the control and facilitation of the global supply line, so it doesn't We will not necessarily see a direct confrontation between China, the United States and Russia, but rather a kind of proxy wars like the ones we are seeing currently and this year. The worst episode, I think, will be in the Indo Pacific, where China and Russia will activate North Korea and, you know? It will direct further military tensions in the Indo-Pacific in the China Sea and Taiwan Strait.

The expert on relations with Russia, Vina Chakarova, thank you, thank you. you a lot