They can kill all the Mullahs and more and it wouldn't change the current trajectory of things.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday reassured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Beijing would not add “fuel to the fire” of the war in Ukraine and insisted the time was ripe to “resolve the crisis politically.”
While Xi’s remarks — as reported by the state’s Xinhua news agency — made no specific reference to international fears that China could send arms to Russia’s invading forces in Ukraine, his words will be read as a signal that Beijing won’t give direct military assistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a fuller statement, Zelenskyy said that during the call “particular attention was paid to the ways of possible cooperation to establish a just and sustainable peace for Ukraine.”
“There can be no peace at the expense of territorial compromises,” Zelenskyy added. “The territorial integrity of Ukraine must be restored within the 1991 borders.”
Old splits, new bridges
One major difference, though, existed between the two.
Zelenskyy has been clear about the need for resistance to continue as Putin has shown no signs of easing the Kremlin’s military aggression, insisting that negotiations would not be possible while parts of Ukraine remain under Russian occupation.
Xi, however, said now would be the time for all sides to talk.
“Now [is the moment] to grasp the opportunity to resolve the crisis politically,” he said. “It’s hoped that all sides could make profound reflection from the Ukraine crisis, and jointly seek a way toward long-lasting peace in Europe through dialogue.”
That is what happen when out of touch with reality overpaid think tankers take control over the narrative, what happened in that last administration was because Trump didn't really belong to those circles they where a bit more weaker, Trump was basically manipulated by his own people, but now that the weakest most cucked party in US history is in power, the DOP, these Military Industrial Complex sponsored breeding places of Chicken Hawkery have become too powerful in D.C., it looks like they have more influence now than in the Iraq War when G.W Bush was president and people who don't know nothing are now are influencing political decision and pushing for basically WW3. Scary times.I personally felt Trump had a some fair argument about trade imbalances with China, but jeez, things have really gone to hell since then. I place most of the blame on the US as it has been the aggressor.
It is very unlikely that Yin Xiyue's kneeling too hard will bring any real benefits, but it will probably cause his leg to be broken and hurt his balls.
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It is not sure whether there will be a game of nuclear umbrella, nuclear weapon deployment and nuclear possession, but it will definitely not be shown through the media.
Considering Russia only recently (a month ago?) finalized RMB settlement in all cross-border payment, there is a delay of more than half year to reflect Sino-Russo trade volume in the graph. Should be reflected in any graph in 2023. BTW, Russia's share of China's trade is relatively small, so the impact is probably going to be buried in fluctuation anyway.Looks like there was a reversal of policies around the time of trade war to increase Yuan usage. Interestingly there isn't a sharp increase following the Ukraine conflict, or perhaps it's too soon to show on the graph.
Chinese police question employees at Bain’s Shanghai office
Visit comes after a series of retaliatory moves from Beijing against western businesses
Chinese police have visited the Shanghai offices of Bain & Company and questioned employees at the US management consulting group, in the latest case of heightened scrutiny of foreign businesses in China as tensions between Beijing and Washington rise.
Six people familiar with the situation said Chinese police had made a surprise visit two weeks ago. Police took away computers and phones but did not detain any team members, according to two people briefed on the incident.
I am not sure how much China cooperating with Russia on missile defense. but they are now integrating S-350 to protect cities it has that high G turns that can deal with buildings for things missed by S-500 at high altitude. This HIMAR is high altitude rocket. some of the intercepts based on video they presented were above 18km at much closer range. SAM missile has to accelerate extreme fast to gain altitude.I'm secretly hoping that some of the highest priority research and military invention in China is missile defense, maybe something like potentially using even missiles like DF-17 and the likes against nukes through say AI, machine learning etc.
And ofc more in the works that I don't know of.