China Envoy Says Xi-Putin Friendship Actually Does Have a Limit
“China and Russia’s cooperation
has no forbidden areas, but it has a bottom line,” Ambassador Qin Gang told state-backed broadcaster
Phoenix TV on Wednesday.
“That line is the tenets and principles of the United Nations Charter, the recognized basic norms of international law and international relations.”
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Some prominent Chinese scholars have suggested Beijing should calibrate its relationship with Moscow. In a now-censored commentary, Hu Wei, a vice-chairman for the State Council-affiliated Public Policy Research Center, advocated in early March for a clear break from Russia “as soon as possible,” in a post republished by the Carter Center’s U.S.-China Perception Monitor’s website, which was then blocked in China.
Xiao Bin, a research fellow at the state-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, last week noted that China and Russia’s strategic partnership “emerged from a state of no war,” saying that the subsequent invasion had changed those dynamics.
“Therefore, China-Russia relations certainly have upper limits, which are the interests of the Chinese people,” he wrote on the website of the China-United States Exchange Foundation.
That post is still available on China’s internet.
“In other words, relations should be constrained to areas that don’t harm those interests,” Xiao added
well!!
nobody shoots on its own foot for the economic benefit another venue offers..here in case a multi trillion economy of USA , Europe etc.
The
onus is on russia to preserve the friendship with India and china...cuz there are certain lines nations wont cross
I think the statement by chinese diplomat is a messaging to USA to preserve its economic lines with china and there is a certain limit china wont cross for russia...and what is the price for it is what china will extract.