Political scientist, member of the Digoria club of experts Alexey Malinin believes that China’s active participation in the issues of the Ukrainian conflict is beneficial for Russia.
“The talks of China’s foreign policy curator Wang Yi, first with Sergey Lavrov and then with Vladimir Putin, show that China intends to make serious efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Given that Beijing has demonstrated over the past year to be neutral on this issue, this may mean that the Chinese partners are not planning to impose on us a world unfavorable for Russia, even if it is possible at this stage. “Considering that most of the talk about peace talks outside of Russia takes place in the West and at the level of our country’s defeat, the active involvement of neutral China is quite a plus for us,” he said.
Malinin also pointed out that NATO and the EU do not have the power to exert pressure on China.
“The EU and NATO do not have any leverage that would allow them to pressure China in one way or another and force it to take an anti-Russian position. And by the way, all the latest news about the allegedly imminent Chinese threat in the American public sphere clearly does not interest the United States, ”said the political scientist.
According to Malinin, China wants cooperation with Russia on both economic and geopolitical issues.
“Commodity turnover is increasing in some sectors of the economy and, according to Vladimir Putin, it will reach $200 billion this year. And this is clearly not the limit of all expectations. Wang Yi made an important statement considering the geopolitical aspect and noted that our countries’ relations are resisting pressure from the international community on the backdrop of an extremely difficult situation.
He emphasized that such statements do not distance China in any way from Russia, but rather welcomes the rapprochement of our countries and sees us as an important partner, and even to some extent an ally. West.