China looks at Russia as its vassal and uses it in its struggle with the West, Volodymyr Omelchenko, an international expert and energy programmes director at Razumkov Centre, told Ukrainian Radio. According to him, "the stupidity of the Russian leadership is highly beneficial for China, and it will try by all means to keep these morons in power in Moscow." So, Beijing will not benefit from Putin's defeat in the war launched by Russia against Ukraine, and therefore the PRC is pushing its so-called "peace" plan — in fact, of Ukraine’s surrender. On the one hand, the PRC gets Russian resources for a song and has serious chances to slowly capture the Russian territories in the Far East. On the other hand, current Russia is a tool for Beijing in its confrontation with the USA for world leadership. This is the last stage of the existence of communist China, the expert notes.
Audio interview with Volodymyr Omelchenko (mp3)
Why not only energy resources, but also China?
"I have always been interested in international politics, and in particular the politics of the PRC. During the war unleashed by Russia, I felt a strong threat from the PRC due to Beijing pushing its so-called "peace" plan. If Kyiv agreed to such a plan, it would actually mean Ukraine’s surrender" — Volodymyr Omelchenko explains his assessment of the events in China.
China after Tiananmen
Exactly on this day, June 4, 1989, the government troops used tanks to suppress large-scale protests in Tiananmen Square in the Chinese capital. These events greatly influenced the future life and development of the PRC, Volodymyr Omelchenko says. In his opinion, after this violent act, the shaky process of democratization in China, which was still taking place in that country more than ten years after the death of "Chinese Stalin" — Mao Zedong, practically stopped. After Tiananmen, Beijing embarked on the path of reprisals, says Omelchenko. "Additional concentration camps were created, in which more than 20 million Chinese were "re-educated". Unfortunately, the West reacted incorrectly to these events, and instead of taking the necessary sanctions against China, Western countries for some reason began to actively invest in the PRC. They invested so much that it resulted in China growing into the world's second largest economy, becoming a technological power. Today, it does not particularly need foreign technologies, because it possesses innovations, felt its global power and already poses a threat to the global West. In this way, the West itself created China as a threat for it. Beijing today puts pressure on Western companies in all world markets, carries out opaque actions in the economy, steals innovative technologies. Now it not only pursues an expansionist policy towards African and Asian countries but has begun to look for opportunities to exert pressure on Europe by splitting it from the USA," Volodymyr Omelchenko believes.
If the democrats took the upper hand in China, what could happen?
"I think that such a scenario was absolutely impossible, because in the essence of communism and Stalinism, there is no place for democratization, no trend to humanity," the expert says. "It could not work under any circumstances. So, I believe that Communist China has already entered its last phase of imperialism, and the main factors of its growth have been exhausted. They were cheap labour, investment in capital construction. So, now the Chinese government will try to maintain its power by expanding its influence in the world. First of all, they want to take over Taiwan, build up their power in the Asia-Pacific region, and become the most powerful global actor in the world, country #1, through the Belt and Road initiative, replacing the US as the world leader. That is why China has embarked on a very dangerous path, including a future war. Recently, Xi Jinping addressed the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and said that the Chinese army must be ready for war, for the most extreme military scenarios," Volodymyr Omelchenko notes.
"Today, the Russian pro-Putin leadership is good for Beijing, because it is stupid"
This is the last stage of the existence of communist China, the expert adds. "If China starts a tough conflict over the redivision of the world with the United States, it will end very badly for China and the Chinese communist dictatorship. Today, the Russian pro-Putin leadership is good for Beijing, because it is stupid and instead of cooperating with the West and opposing China, it began to attack the West, Ukraine. This is very good for China, because this strategy, on the one hand, exhausts Russia, on the other — the West. And China stands and looks what benefits it can obtain from this and has already received a lot — Russian resources, serious capabilities of slow takeover of Russian territories in the Far East due to the influx of labour migrants. Now China looks at Russia as its vassal and uses it in its rivalry with the West. Therefore, this stupidity of the Russian leadership is highly beneficial for China, and it will try by all means to keep these morons in power in Moscow," Volodymyr Omelchenko said.
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