Thread by @GeringTuvia

"Maintaining fairness&justice in🇺🇦, actively encouraging talks, & promoting peace are more in line with China's int'l image, strategic goals, & the common interests of the int'l community than hoping for a reprieve after a major conflict b/w the🇺🇸and🇷🇺" - Cui Hongjian, CIIS
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Cui, senior research fellow and director of the Department for European Studies at CIIS and a contributor to the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center has also said that "achieving regional stability and strategic balance will better serve China's national interests in the long run."
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The article's main argument, however, is that "linking between the fate of Taiwan and Ukraine is a trap". Cui argues that the US-led West's insistence on drawing parallels between the two cases belies three premises:
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First, a need to frame both as a rivalry of "democracies" vs. "autocracies;" second, conflate internal affairs (ie Taiwan) with international diplomacy; third, to have both used as pawns in the great powers game and rally allies to contain China and Russia. Excerpt:
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"Ensure that the Taiwanese pay closer attention to events in Ukraine, so that they can see for themselves how the US' ability to prop up the great power games in Eurasia is less than ideal, and so that they can figure out where their true hope for the future lies...
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"Because Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times, its fate must be decided and sealed by the Chinese people."
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Link: opinion.huanqiu.com/article/46oqkf…