A posting on a Chinese website charges that Russia’s attack on Ukraine “violated the basic rules of human civilization.”
And it urges the world …
A posting on a Chinese website charges that Russia’s attack on Ukraine “violated the basic rules of human civilization.” And it urges the world to look beyond Vladimir Putin’s reign. China, which is known to have reached multiple agreements with Russia over food and energy purchases in the days leading up to the February invasion of Ukraine by the apparently partly conscripted Russian army, hasn’t made many significant public statements about the conflict, although it has called some of the reports of heinous massacres disturbing. But according to a report from the Middle East Media Research Institute, the more volatile messaging appeared on the weixen.qq.com website. MEMRI reported the article “clearly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” And it had not yet been removed by the Chinese Communist Party’s “cyberpolice,” the report said. “The article stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed a joint statement with Chinese President Xi Jinping that offered several conditions for China’s satisfaction. The reason for this was given as Putin’s manipulation of China in order to trap Beijing into an ‘evil-like and unkind position’ in the war on Ukraine. “However, the articles stresses that China will never attack Ukraine, stating: ‘It is this war that violated the basic rules of human civilization, which brought the whole of Russia into a boundless abyss while bringing huge humanitarian disaster to the Ukrainian people. And it was opposed by all the people who love peace in the world, including the Russian people,'” the report said. “It now seems that Russia’s failure is only a matter of time,” the article warned.
