Russia opposes Taiwan’s independence in any form and considers the island an inseparable part of China, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published on Sunday.
In an interview with Russia’s TASS state news agency, Lavrov also urged Japan to “think carefully” about what he described as a course towards militarisation".
We all knew Russia is now China’s puppet. But I didn’t realize China is also so good at ventriloquism.
Or, more likely, Russia supports China’s annexation of Taiwan and China supports Russia’s annexation of Ukraine.
It seems to me the whole world has always been about assholes supporting each other - until their interests don’t allign anymore - while they all keep the common idiots fighting each other.
I am not so sure. China has clearly said that it can’t afford Russia to lose the war in Ukraine. But there is the point that China can neither afford Russia to win, or at least the Chinese don’t want Russia to win.
China wants both a weak Europe and a weak Russia (as well as weak, disunited ‘partners’ around the globe; Trump’s attacks against the EU’s existence plays into China’s hands imho). If everyone aroudn is distracted and busy with domestic problems, economic and political coercion work much better, and it makes it easier for the Chinese government to pursue its own advantages - in Siberia, Taiwan, in the South China Sea, in global trade, … I may be mistaken, of course, but that’s my opinion.
China’s stance on the annexation of Ukraine is nowhere as clear as Russia’s on the annexation of Taiwan.
Maybe their situation is something like this: