“If NATO expands further, it will approach the outskirts of Moscow, where a missile can hit the Kremlin within 7 or 8 minutes,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng warned.
“Strapping a major country, especially a nuclear power, (Russia) in a corner, would have repercussions so horrific that it is unthinkable,” he added.
He stressed that NATO should have been disintegrated and “inscribed in history alongside the Warsaw Pact”.
But instead of disintegrating, NATO continued to strengthen and expand its forces, and intervened militarily in countries such as Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, one can expect the consequences of going on this path.
With these sharp statements, observers believe that China is sticking to its vision, which holds Washington and NATO responsible for the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, despite Western pressures, especially American pressures on it, which have threatened to impose sanctions on it if it continues to favor Moscow and help it overcome the consequences of Western economic sanctions.
Commenting on this, Ali Yahya, an expert in international relations, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia: “There is no doubt that the foundations of the Chinese position regarding the acute international crisis are affected by many facts. On the one hand, it is linked to a strategic alliance and high-level coordination with Russia, which It postponed the launch of its operation in Ukraine until the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, and on the other hand, the Chinese economy and growth depend mainly on the stability of energy supplies and the stability of global markets.”
However, China looks with suspicion at the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during its three phases towards the Russian borders, as Yahya explains, continuing: “He also saw the Okos alliances between the United States, Britain, and Australia, and Quads between the United States, Japan, India, Australia, and attempts to encircle it militarily, and drain it through a package of files and issues, from Tibet to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Huawei and others, in parallel with its classification by Washington as a central threat, and from here its position is developing upward from what is happening to the extent that the Chinese mission to the European Union is described, NATO is a relic of the Cold War, and the size of the gap between the Chinese and Atlantic positions was measured against this.
For his part, Tariq Sarami, writer and political researcher, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia: “Beijing’s statements against NATO have escalated remarkably during the past few days, including this statement by its deputy foreign minister, and it is almost the most severe against Washington and NATO since the outbreak of the crisis. Ukrainian”.
The writer and political researcher adds: “It is absolutely clear to any observer that Beijing tends to Moscow during this crisis despite declaring its neutrality in it, but it seems from these statements that it is not negative neutrality without a position, as it seems clear in the light of these Chinese positions that Beijing is closer to Moscow’s narrative and sympathetic to its vision. And she understands the causes or pretexts she presents, name it what you want, for starting this war.”
And about what is expected in light of the escalation of tension between Washington and Beijing on the impact of the Ukrainian crisis, the spokesman says: “China will often continue to stand, even indirectly, with Russia, as it sees the expansion of NATO to the east as a threat to it as well, not only Russia, and in its support for the Russian position is It is based on a set of principled and pragmatic considerations, related to the fact that they are two major neighboring powers that have common denominators and an endless network of mutual interests, and that they are therefore not in the process of complying with the dictates of Washington and NATO and allowing the intrusion of their vital space by NATO.
Prior to the video chat between Biden and Peng, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Communist Party chief diplomat Yang Jiechi held what the White House described as a “substantial” 7-hour meeting in the Italian capital, Rome, earlier this week.
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