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China Should Do in Ukraine What it Did in Vietnam. [1]

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Date: 2023-03-01

ROFLMAO and making a modest proposal

So far China’s involvement in the attempted genocide of Ukrainians by putin’s russia has been understated and subtle. But on the whole, and in the specific case of this conflict, it is clear that to date China has accomplished a political balancing act worthy of accolades close to even Joe Biden’s. The tact and diplomacy with which Bejing has traversed the crisis has been impressive; with their representatives deftly managing prickly international relations, maintaining close contacts and vital economic ties with persnickety parties on all sides of the conflict.

However, with russia losing steam (not to mention 150k soldiers) and getting desperate for some sort of victory in Ukraine China’s stance is rapidly being frog marched to a cross roads, and I would like to make a suggestion for an all around beneficient course for that nation to take when it arrives there:

China should repeat their successful response to the invasion of Vietnam, and arm the defenders of Ukraine: Ukrainians. Xi should ignore the anomaly that, yes, this means that the US and China would be allies, and focus on the clear justice of Ukrainians’ existential cause, like ~141 nations of the UN are doing.

This would instantly accomplish a great many things for China in the eyes of the rest of the world (which I can guarantee would all be as big as dinner plates) at the cost of one ageing, dwindling, unremitting liar of an utterly faithless ‘ally’.

Naturally, immediately following such an announcement by China the russian invasion of Ukraine would effectively be over, Ivan would have no choice but to tuck tail and head home, but China would be party to that victory (if not given a large part of the credit for ending an attempted genocide), gaining genuine, palpable heroic credibility even in ‘the west’; something they had recently been leaking like a deflating balloon on the world stage.

russia will be so weakened by such a devastating loss that even cheaper natural resources will be available to the Chinese, at least until russians get their utterly dystopic domestic political shit together. And that could be awhile.

Or, if russia somehow manages to make itself unavailable to China and the world in retaliation, so what? russia is currently more or less effectively cut off from much of the world’s trade anyway, and since the world’s energy/food delivery system has been surprisingly able to adapt to the loss of russia’s immediate contribution, a China that supported Ukraine would definitely be welcome to keep every other economic port open. Certainly Chinese trade would at least continue with the 141 nations that voted ‘yes’ regarding the UN resolution(s) that the russian army should leave Ukraine.

In short: if China decided to quit abstaining and outright supported Ukrainians’ defense, like they did the Vietnamese’, the world would be their oyster, or at the very least a better place all around for them and everyone else too. All for the price of one putin.

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