{"id":1823887,"date":"2023-01-25T15:20:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823887"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T20:20:18","slug":"why-russia-and-china-are-not-as-close-as-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-russia-and-china-are-not-as-close-as-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russia and China Are Not as Close as You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-russia-and-china-are-not-as-close-as-you-think%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823887&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>There\u2019s a common assumption that the People\u2019s Republic of China is foursquare behind Russia\u2019s relentless but largely unsuccessful war against Ukraine. This is a marriage of convenience, supported by the common cause between the geopolitical giants opposing the West and particularly the United States. Therefore, it is expected that Beijing will offer all its assistance to Moscow in order to crush its U.S.-aligned neighbour.<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, finds Russia&#8217;s actions useful propaganda tools. Putin\u2019s claim that Ukrainian statehood is an artificial construct is the perfect analogue for Beijing\u2019s long-standing position that Taiwan should never be regarded as an independent state and that &#8220;there is only <em>one<\/em> China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reality of Russia\u2019s relationship with China, however, is somewhat different, as two diplomatic missions demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Ukraine and the high-stakes geopolitics resulted in two high-level foreign visits made by senior Ukrainian officials to the United States and Russian officials to China in the week leading up to Christmas\u2014interactions that both nations hoped would result in significant support for their interests in the conflict between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>After one-on-one talks with President Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, addressed a joint session in prime time of Congress. Zelensky came away from this engagement\u2014his first foreign trip since the invasion began\u2014with pledges of another $47 billion in weaponry and other financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>The same week, Dmitri Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia\u2019s Security Council, met with President Xi in Beijing. Russians wanted a end-of-the-year statement from the PRC indicating their commitment to supporting Russia in this conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians have seen nearly every country with which they once had strong diplomatic or trade relations cut ties since invading Ukraine. Putin looks at an elevated level of support from China as the only realistic hope of counterbalancing Russia\u2019s increased isolation from the West.<\/p>\n<p>But if Medvedev was counting on a firm show of support for Russia\u2019s victory and promises of generous military aid from the Chinese dictator, he came away rather disappointed. China\u2019s government propaganda apparatus took great pains to downplay the visit and not show any official endorsement of Moscow\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting on the visit in official Chinese state media, no reference was made to Medvedev having been elected Russia\u2019s president for one term from 2008-2012, his serving as prime minister from 2012-2020, or even his current position on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a common assumption that the People\u2019s Republic of China is foursquare behind Russia\u2019s relentless but largely unsuccessful war against Ukraine. This marriage of convenience is supported by the common cause of the two geopolitical giants in opposition to the West and especially the United States. It has consequently been expected that Beijing will lend all possible assistance to assist Moscow in crushing its U.S.-aligned neighbor.<br \/>\nThe post Why Russia and China Are Not as Close as You Think appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1693,"featured_media":1823890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4501,5437,4280],"class_list":["post-1823887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-china","tag-close","tag-russia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}