"The most fundamental reason for Ukraine's current condition is that its government is a puppet controlled by the US" - quoted from Zhanhao占豪, a private media account that is consistently among the top ten most-read on WeChat for commentary on current affairs. Excerpts: 1/5
"[Ukraine's] policymakers have no understanding of politics and are total rookies when it comes to international relations and geopolitics. A tragic end is virtually unavoidable when you're led by someone like him (Zelenskyy).
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"Many countries will vanish in the next few decades until the end of the century, as Zhanhao has repeatedly stated. This is the unavoidable outcome of the 'great changes unseen in a century' [a key Xi Jinping phrase that is found in varying contexts].
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"And such good-for-nothing trouble-making countries that appoint non-statesmen to lead them, who are manipulated by agents of great powers, will be the first to vanish.
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"Zhanhao believes that Ukraine will cease to exist in the not-too-distant future, with Russia and possibly other countries annexing the country..." 5/5 Link: mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzUxNj…
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"As long as we don't make any strategic blunders, China's modernization process will not be hampered by the US, and China may even play a bigger role in the construction of the new world order" - according to Prof. Zheng Yongnian, Ukraine reflects the changing world order. 1/7
The influential political scientist of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), believes that the war in Ukraine has shown the US and the West that their main threat is Putin and Russia, not China.
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Zheng explains how we got here, and how, in his opinion, the new world order has been forming since the end of the Cold War, and it will eventually replace the current hegemonic US-led order with a more decentralized order led by regional major powers.
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"Small countries should take notice and fully appreciate that those who play with fire get burned... They must strike a balance between the major powers and invariably bend the knee in front of certain countries" - Political scientist Guo Jicheng's comments on Ukraine.
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Guo Jicheng is a CCP member, lecturer for the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, and an associate professor at the Institute of Ideological and Political Studies at the China Uni. of Political Science and Law. He has 2 million followers on Douyin (TikTok). Full translation:
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"The situation in Ukraine is complicated. It's a question of how much pressure this small country can withstand and what it will do if dismembered; it will have global consequences.
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"We must determine which is the principal and which is the secondary contradiction. The primary aim of the struggle is the US imperialist hegemony, while the historical baggage between China and Russia can be shelved for the time being" - editorial board of Eric Li's Guancha 1/5
Needless to say, her use of the terms "primary contradiction" and "secondary contradiction" is based on one of Mao's most famous lectures, which would become the essay "On Contradiction." (marxists.org/reference/arch…)
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"There was a time when China and the US got along, but our economic size and development model have reached a point where we must meet the US head-on.
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"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 1/6
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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"If in the 90s - and going into the last decade - globalization was interest-driven through trade and investment, one of the many characteristics of today's globalization is the return of ideology" - Renowned Chinese economist Zhang Yuyan on the post-pandemic world. 1/3
Zhang, a Senior Fellow & Director of the Inst. of World Economics and Politics at the state-led Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), has published a new article titled "The Game of Major Powers in a Post-Pandemic Era" in the "World Economics and Politics" journal.Excerpt:2/
"The game between major powers or groups of states has shifted from pure 'interest politics' to 'interest politics+principles politics,' making it more difficult to reach an intn'l consensus. Of course, in the end, the principles that uphold justice for mankind will triumph." 3/3
"China has been pursuing its own form of decoupling for more than a decade" - Since 2018, policymakers in China and the US have been frequently using the term "decoupling" to describe the changing dynamics in bilateral relations. 1/8
Despite leading voices in the Biden administration now talking about "recoupling," many analysts, including former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, have warned that this could be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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In a new column titled "Prophecies and Realities of Sino-US Relations," Yu Yongding, ex-pres of the China Society of World Economics and dir. of the Inst. of World Economics and Politics at the state-run CN Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), also warns against this eventuality
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