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1. European Council President Charles Michel said that the European Union expected China to push Moscow to respect international law. He said that China should use "all means at its disposal" for this. Michel's statement came just days before G20 summit takes place. It is expected that the issue of Ukraine war will dominate the summit.
Michel was speaking on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit taking place in Cambodia. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged Southeast Asian nations to support Kyiv.
While China remains a major trading partner of the European Union, officials have repeatedly called on Beijing to publicly condemn Russia's actions -- without success so far....
"We encourage the Chinese authorities to use all the means at their disposal to convince Russia to respect internationally recognised borders, to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine," Michel told AFP....
Source Link: https://www.wionews.com/world/china...espect-international-law-says-eu-chief-533596
2. (The following article was published on 06/10/2018)
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro lit into Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, saying there’s a “special place in hell” for a world leader who double crosses President Donald Trump.
“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door,” Navarro told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “And that’s what bad-faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference.”...
“To my friends in Canada, that was one of the worst political miscalculations of the Canadian leader in modern Canadian history,” Navarro added. “All Justin Trudeau had to do was take the win.”...
Source Link: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/special-place-hell-trump-trudeau-navarro-635100
3. Even though the US has 5,400 nuclear weapons to counter Russia's 6,000 warheads, Uncle Sam scampered like a rat at the sight of the massing Russian troops at the Ukrainian border from the very beginning, citing the risk of World War 3. With a modest arsenal of an estimated 350 nuclear warheads, can China prevent Russia from invading Ukraine?
Secondly, the Chinese leader is no Messiah. He could not call on the Divine Superman to stop the Russian invasion. Neither could he perform any miracle in the Black Sea to sink the Russian navy -- unlike the Biblical Moses who parted the Red Sea and drowned the pursuing Egyptian army with the help of God. The European Council President and other EU leaders should pray very hard for the 2024 political comeback of the US ex-president who had declared himself “King of Israel” and the “Second Coming of God”.
Thirdly, the Chinese leader is not the father or the grandfather of Putin. Even if Putin's father could return from the Great Beyond, Putin would not obey him to stop the war. Instead, he might say; "Look, dad, you should be glad that you have such a great son who has made history to become our motherland's "Mr Ga" by "Making Russia Great Again (MRGA)."
Fourthly, the Chinese leader could suffer the same humiliation experienced by his Canadian counterpart if he opposes or condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Xi could be reserved "a special place in hell" by a "Russian Navarro" "for engaging in bad-faith diplomacy with Putin and then trying to stab him in the back on the way out the door”.
4. Fifthly, the US and its allies have alleged that China supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but they have intentionally ignored the fact that the Russian invasion has hit China's business and economic interests in Ukraine very hard. China has a strategic interest in Ukraine because of its location, a free trade deal between Ukraine and the European Union, and the former Soviet republic's supply of mineral and agricultural resources.
Trade relations between China and Ukraine have grown significantly since a state visit to China in 2013 by then President Viktor Yanukovych.
China leapfrogged Russia to become Ukraine's biggest single trading partner in 2019, with overall trade totalling $18.98 billion last year (2021), a nearly 80% jump from 2013, according to data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
Ukrainian exports to China, mainly commodities such as iron ore, corn and sunflower oil, stood at $8.0 billion in 2021, while imports from China, largely machinery and consumer goods, totalled $10.97 billion, the data showed.
China became the largest importer of Ukrainian barley in the 2020-21 marketing year. About 30% of China's corn imports last year, more than 8 million tonnes, came from Ukraine, Chinese customs data showed....
Ukraine is an important hub within the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature infrastructure and foreign policy project, which Kyiv joined in 2017. In 2020, the two sides signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in areas including the financing and construction of infrastructure projects....
Please refer to https://www.reuters.com/business/au...siness-economic-interests-ukraine-2022-02-23/
P.S. Seeing the heavy economic losses suffered by China in the wake of the invasion, the US and its allies should thank Russia for invading Ukraine.
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Michel was speaking on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit taking place in Cambodia. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged Southeast Asian nations to support Kyiv.
While China remains a major trading partner of the European Union, officials have repeatedly called on Beijing to publicly condemn Russia's actions -- without success so far....
"We encourage the Chinese authorities to use all the means at their disposal to convince Russia to respect internationally recognised borders, to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine," Michel told AFP....
Source Link: https://www.wionews.com/world/china...espect-international-law-says-eu-chief-533596
2. (The following article was published on 06/10/2018)
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro lit into Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, saying there’s a “special place in hell” for a world leader who double crosses President Donald Trump.
“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door,” Navarro told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “And that’s what bad-faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference.”...
“To my friends in Canada, that was one of the worst political miscalculations of the Canadian leader in modern Canadian history,” Navarro added. “All Justin Trudeau had to do was take the win.”...
Source Link: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/10/special-place-hell-trump-trudeau-navarro-635100
3. Even though the US has 5,400 nuclear weapons to counter Russia's 6,000 warheads, Uncle Sam scampered like a rat at the sight of the massing Russian troops at the Ukrainian border from the very beginning, citing the risk of World War 3. With a modest arsenal of an estimated 350 nuclear warheads, can China prevent Russia from invading Ukraine?
Secondly, the Chinese leader is no Messiah. He could not call on the Divine Superman to stop the Russian invasion. Neither could he perform any miracle in the Black Sea to sink the Russian navy -- unlike the Biblical Moses who parted the Red Sea and drowned the pursuing Egyptian army with the help of God. The European Council President and other EU leaders should pray very hard for the 2024 political comeback of the US ex-president who had declared himself “King of Israel” and the “Second Coming of God”.
Thirdly, the Chinese leader is not the father or the grandfather of Putin. Even if Putin's father could return from the Great Beyond, Putin would not obey him to stop the war. Instead, he might say; "Look, dad, you should be glad that you have such a great son who has made history to become our motherland's "Mr Ga" by "Making Russia Great Again (MRGA)."
Fourthly, the Chinese leader could suffer the same humiliation experienced by his Canadian counterpart if he opposes or condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Xi could be reserved "a special place in hell" by a "Russian Navarro" "for engaging in bad-faith diplomacy with Putin and then trying to stab him in the back on the way out the door”.
4. Fifthly, the US and its allies have alleged that China supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but they have intentionally ignored the fact that the Russian invasion has hit China's business and economic interests in Ukraine very hard. China has a strategic interest in Ukraine because of its location, a free trade deal between Ukraine and the European Union, and the former Soviet republic's supply of mineral and agricultural resources.
Trade relations between China and Ukraine have grown significantly since a state visit to China in 2013 by then President Viktor Yanukovych.
China leapfrogged Russia to become Ukraine's biggest single trading partner in 2019, with overall trade totalling $18.98 billion last year (2021), a nearly 80% jump from 2013, according to data from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
Ukrainian exports to China, mainly commodities such as iron ore, corn and sunflower oil, stood at $8.0 billion in 2021, while imports from China, largely machinery and consumer goods, totalled $10.97 billion, the data showed.
China became the largest importer of Ukrainian barley in the 2020-21 marketing year. About 30% of China's corn imports last year, more than 8 million tonnes, came from Ukraine, Chinese customs data showed....
Ukraine is an important hub within the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature infrastructure and foreign policy project, which Kyiv joined in 2017. In 2020, the two sides signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation in areas including the financing and construction of infrastructure projects....
Please refer to https://www.reuters.com/business/au...siness-economic-interests-ukraine-2022-02-23/
P.S. Seeing the heavy economic losses suffered by China in the wake of the invasion, the US and its allies should thank Russia for invading Ukraine.
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