(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday in Moscow senior Chinese officials, led by the highest exponent of the Chinese Communist Party's Foreign Commission, Wang Yi they met Vladimir Putin confirming a friendship without limits. Observers and press releases expressly speak of friendship and not of a real pact not to make the situation even more tense which, many think, could degenerate at any moment even following a futile accident. However, China, at the last security conference in Munich, undertook to mediate a political solution to the Ukrainian conflict with Russia, handing over a Chinese plan.
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Wang Yi, China's top diplomat, held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin a day after meeting with Moscow's security chief and saying relations between the nations are "solid as a rock".
In a certain sense Wang yesterday turned China's position 360 degrees with respect to the more conciliatory declarations following the accusations of the US secretary of state, Antony blinken which warned Beijing about the harsh American reaction to arms shipments to Russia. The meeting between the two diplomats also focused on the story of the Chinese spy balloon shot down over the American skies and the will of the president Biden to reopen the communication channel with Xi Jinping.
Yesterday, the Russians and the Chinese also reaffirmed their intention to develop their strategic cooperation with the aim of building "a multipolar world in opposition to all forms of one-sided and bullying behavior“. Namely the policy of the West.
China has never publicly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine but has supported Moscow's propaganda that the US and NATO have provoked the Kremlin. China has also always condemned the sanctions imposed on Russia. Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected to visit Moscow in the coming months.
Wang therefore wanted to dispel any doubts by saying that "le Sino-Russian relations have stood the test of international turmoil and are mature and durable”.
Concerns about these renewed "relations" are due to the fact that Chinese military assistance to Russia could cause the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to expand on a larger scale.
Even the secretary general of NATO Jens Stoltenberg he told the Associated Press that there were "some signs" that China may be ready to supply weapons to Russia, also stating that the Alliance will support Ukraine "for as long as necessary".
Meanwhile, yesterday the two chambers of the Russian Parliament unanimously approved the law in record time suspension of the New Start treaty with the USA for the limitation of nuclear weapons, announced yesterday by Putin. But for Russia, the Deputy Foreign Minister stressed Sergei Ryabkov, an atomic war remains inadmissible.
Always yesterday in front of a packed stadium, Putin revoked a 2012 decree which urged the development of good relations with the EU, the US and NATO and promised, among other things, to collaborate on a solution to the Transnistrian problem respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Moldova.
We therefore return to talk of the recognition of Moldovan territorial integrity, questioned by the pro-Russian separatists of Transnistria, a strip of territory along the border with Ukraine that hosts a contingent of about 1 Moscow soldiers.
The revocation of the 2012 decree is destined to increase tensions with Moldova, whose president, the pro-European Maya Sandu, recently accused Russia of preparing a coup in Chisinau to bring the country into its orbit, thus opening a new front on Ukraine's borders.