China is moving towards a sharp edge in Ukraine, according to international analysts in the current French press. The Libération newspaper points out that, according to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, China has been “carrying out an act of balancing” since the start of the war in Ukraine, divided between “fundamentally incompatible” interests. “The first is its strategic partnership with Russia. The second is the fundamental principles of China’s foreign policy, namely sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in internal affairs. And the third is its desire not to become the same collateral loss of US and EU sanctions. “
“Beijing says negotiations need to take place, but in no case has it taken any steps to facilitate dialogue between the warring parties. This is a facade of neutrality. “China tacitly supports Moscow,” said a spokesman for the French Institute for International Relations (Ifri). risky, even suicidal for Beijing financially. “
“If China contributes substantially to the Russian war machine in Ukraine, through the provision of equipment or significant financial assistance, its actions will accelerate the division of the world into competing blocs,” said a Brookings Institution analyst. “between the Western democracies on the one hand and the constellation of authoritarian regimes on the other, led by China and Russia, is already a guiding principle of the Biden government.”
The same issue is mentioned by Figaro, pointing out that the American attack feeds the dilemma of Chinese President Xi, who is between the alliance with his “old friend” Putin and his need for geopolitical and economic stability a few months before a critical party congress, at which he intends to run for a third term. But “China will not allow itself to be cornered,” Rafaelo Paducci of Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore told the newspaper. “Obsessed with the game of the century, reborn China wants to keep pace with America, without leaving its Russian ally in the muddy plains of Ukraine,” he concludes.
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