THE Chinafor the time being, rather discreetly supports the Russian side but if things go badly for Russia he may begin to wonder if he bet on the wrong horse.
This was stated in the French newspaper Les Échos Pierre Vimon Adviser to the President Macron on relations with Russia and former French ambassador to Washington noting that the European Union is the first economic partner and the first foreign investor in China.
As for whether the Ukrainian crisis can be considered a “birth certificate of a defense Europe”, Bimon recalls Monet’s saying that “Europe is always discovered in crises”. However, he considers that the strategic question is whether how much this strategic autonomy, in terms of defense and security, can to be achieved “in good complementarity” with the American administration.
In the same newspaper, the former French ambassador to Moscow and Beijing, Jean-Maurice Ripper, estimates that Putin’s goal was to weaken Ukraine to such an extent that it no longer represents anything neither for the European Union nor for NATO “. He also stressed that Putin’s obsession, less visible, is that he “wants to destroy the European Union” because, unlike the Chinese President, he believes that the European Union is a problem for the European continent, because it creates unrest in Russia’s dialogue with the United States. States.
For Ripper, Putin does not negotiate, he repeats indefinitely what he has to say, while there is always this Russian obsession “to fight for democracy and to deny the concept of universal human rights.” He described Russia as “a huge kleptocracy”, adding that “Putin and his team are determined to maintain their wealth first and foremost.”
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