China-Russia Ties: Beijing Warns West Against Supporting Ukraine, Sanctioning Moscow

In ambiguous support for Russia, China warned on Monday against giving arms to Ukraine or putting sanctions on Moscow during the conflict.

China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dai Bing, said in a presentation to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) during the session on Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking in Ukraine that such actions would only perpetuate and deepen the war.

China Refuses To Back Russia

He believes that the world community should work together to encourage peace discussions. The deputy permanent representative of China to the United Nations stated that Ukrainians and people in other poor nations should not bear the price of geopolitical and blockade conflicts.

Russian authorities are increasingly upset by China's apparent unwillingness to give greater assistance to Moscow during the conflict with Ukraine. Over 100 days after the conflict began in February, the bulk of the West supported Kyiv while a few nations, like China and Belarus, officially supported Moscow. However, in an intriguing twist, a Chinese official was cited in the media as portraying Beijing's conversations with Russia as strained, Republic World reported.

According to an analyst, China is more powerful than Russia because of its seismic effect on global trade, and the West is beginning to see that it may have to forsake its strategy of strategic ambiguity to prevent Chinese growth.

Professor Zeno Leoni, a military studies lecturer at King's College London, stated that convincing Western governments that China represents a "threat" to the rest of the world due to its monopoly on global exports is "very tough."

Opposition to China, which provides roughly 15% of all commodities and services in the globe, is "extremely tough," according to Prof Leoni. And he said that the West is in a "real quandary" about how to curb China's military buildup without generating havoc on the global trading floor.

US President Joe Biden became the latest global politician to throw shade on the principle of strategic ambiguity employed towards China, a practice that looks to contain Xi Jinping's military expansion of China without destroying trade relations.

Throughout a summit meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo last week, Biden was asked if the US was prepared to "get engaged militarily to defend Taiwan" if China invaded, as per Express.

Russia-Ukraine War Ignites China's Aim To Invade Taiwan

China has significant military supremacy over Taiwan, as Russia has over Ukraine, but an amphibious attack on an island 100 miles distant is no easy task. Taiwan, backed by the US, would be able to strike any crossing boats, and any landing against well-entrenched forces would be risky for the untested People's Liberation Army.

Xi Jinping will not tolerate the massive fatalities that Russia is inflicting on Ukraine. On the other hand, many Taiwanese strategists have been astounded by Russia's quick military expansion and the terrible results.

For the time being, Taiwan's overarching sentiment is one of caution. Given Russia's terrible performance in Ukraine, the island's senior spymaster stated last month that Beijing would be more careful about its war plans. "Similarly, Taiwan will learn how to progress itself," stated National Security Bureau head Chen Ming-tong.

China has publicly campaigned for peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but it has also vowed to capture the island militarily if necessary. There is no set timetable for this, but before the Ukraine war, US authorities predicted a Chinese invasion of Taiwan within the next six to ten years. Chinese planes and bombers repeatedly invading Taiwan's air defense zone have exacerbated tensions, according to Politico.