According to reporters, Putin’s confidence in the unconditional support of the PRC partly influenced his decision to launch an invasion of Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may have misjudged China’s future position, believing that Beijing would wholeheartedly support Moscow. This misjudgment partly influenced his decision to launch a massive invasion of Ukraine. Speaking of which in shape The Spectator in a publication dedicated to the attempts of Chinese diplomacy to influence the decisions taken by Washington and Moscow in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Beijing’s position cannot be assessed unambiguously. To both sides, representatives of the PRC leadership declare their willingness to listen. In meetings with representatives of the Russian Federation, Chinese politicians blame the United States for the war and NATO representatives are told that they intend to develop relations with them.
According to reporters, China was aware of the plans of the Russian Federation regarding the invasion of Ukraine, but at the same time Putin described them as “a limited operation to return the territories lost by the Russian Federation” (the so-called People’s Republics of the “L/DPR” were implied). Subsequently, Beijing was surprised by the real scale of the ongoing offensive, which also included an attack on Kiev.
In China, they decided that Putin’s activities are fraught with a potential conflict with the West, in view of this, the priority for the PRC was not to support the Russian Federation, but to avoid any escalation with the use of nuclear weapons and help achieve peace.
It is reported that, allegedly to achieve this goal, Beijing has been trying to prevent transfer of MiG-29 fighters to Ukrainebelonging to the Polish Air Force. China has decided not to supply weapons to Russia and to help circumvent the sanctions. Thus, reporters report, NATO and Beijing have become situational allies in terms of nuclear deterrence.
Russia plans to invade Japan in 2021but chose Ukraine. According to reporters, the Kremlin media were preparing an information campaign – they were going to convince the Russians that the Japanese were Nazis and fascists. It has also been claimed that Japan intended to detonate a germ bomb in 1944.
Previously Focus reported that foreign companies help targeting Russian missiles via GLONASS. This statement was made by representatives of the GUR. Ukrainian intelligence is urging Western companies not to use GLONASS, the Soviet analogue of GPS, in microchips.
