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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China, an official briefed on the talks said, contradicting Beijing’s public position of neutrality in the conflict.

The admission came during what the official said was a four-hour meeting with EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas on Wednesday in Brussels that “featured tough but respectful exchanges, covering a broad range of issues from cyber security, rare earths to trade imbalances, Taiwan and Middle East.”

The official said Wang’s private remarks suggested Beijing might prefer a protracted war in Ukraine that keeps the United States from focusing on its rivalry with China. They echo concerns of critics of China’s policy that Beijing has geopolitically much more at stake in the Ukrainian conflict than its admitted position of neutrality.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Out of all the reasons China needs Russia to win this is the most bullshit one they could serve us. They are sided with Putin, supply him with military equipment and help him get around sanctions for oil. They need Putin's war economy to work so they can replicate it in South East Asia obviously.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 29 points 1 day ago

Taco Don already functionally stopped all aid and arms supply to Ukraine and trying his hardest to ignore Ukraine, and will probably chicken out from helping Taiwan defend itself too in case latter gets invaded.

So that's just China being asshole too and wanting Russia to succeed, because that'd mean you can take a dump on international laws and have benefits that outweigh repercussions.

If whatever remains of free democratic world won't get its shit together soon - we will just get picked apart eventually by those last iteration imperialists.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yah, if anything, this is even more reason Russia must not win, it can cripple China too.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

That's why they said they prefer a protracted war. As long as it's going on without a clear winner, they can both supply Russia and keep selling their shit to the EU.

There will come a time they will have to choose, however.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doesn't their economy have a way bigger production capacity than Russia's? Why would they want to replicate Russia's? China seems much more successful at manufacturing at scale.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Until now, the fact that the rest of the civilised world would wreck their economy through sanctions has stopped them doing that.