A month before the Russian Ukraine War broke out in February 2022,
Russia bought lots of weapons like helicopters and drones from China in
bilateral trade. The USA is now making an issue of this, accusing China
of helping Russia in the Ukraine War, by supplying weapons to Russia.
Why should China suddenly stop its weapons sales to Russia after the war
started? China and Russia had a good business relationship and will not
stop its weapons sales to Russia that is bound to sour relations. This
is just plain logic, and afterall Russia needs weapons in the Ukraine
War.
The narrative now being touted is that China is not neutral
and is taking sides. What is wrong with that? If China condemns Russia
or breaks off good relations with Russia, it clearly means China is
openly supporting the USA and its allies against Russia. This means
China's stand is not neutral either and taking sides as well. So, what
does taking sides mean to the USA? Perhaps under their 'Rules Based
Order' it means that China supporting the USA by sanctioning Russia is
not taking sides, but China supporting Russia is construed as not a
neutral stand but is taking sides. What kind of warp logic is that?
China
is now basically supporting Russia not covertly, but is an open secret
now, since whatever China does is construed as against the USA and its
allies. The USA can continue to generate all the witch hunting
propaganda, but will ultimately fall on deaf ears on the Chinese side.
This is perfectly logical, since the USA just conveniently takes the
Chinese point of view as merely noises to brush aside. The USA can
threaten all kinds of consequences, as if China, in its present
position, has no retaliatory means to do a tit for tat.
Consequential
threats have lost much of its relevance, just like the sanctions
imposed on countries such as Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran and
Russia. Joe Biden threatened Saudi Arabia with consequences after his
abject failure, by flying personally to Saudi Arabia to coerce MBS to
extract more oil. Instead MBS reduced oil production and what
consequences did he faced? When faced with a formidable adversary, the
USA behaves like a paper tiger. Now dangling concessions hoping to sway
MBS decision to join BRICS, trade with China in Yuan and not to use
Chinese communication system in the country.
Similarly, the USA
is threatening Niger military regime of consequences, with ECOWAS
threatening invasion, that never came after the expiry of its ultimatum.
On the contrary, support for the military regime in Niger comes
strongly from neighours and overwhelming support also came from
volunteers all over the world. The USA and France are basically propping
up support for their ousted stooge President, their puppet on a string.
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