Ukraine supports China’s position on Taiwan – Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
https://unn.ua/en/news/ukraine-supports-chinas-position-on-taiwan-press-service-of-the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-peoples-republic-of-china
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Submission Statement:
Ukraine supports China’s position on Taiwan and will continue to adhere to the principle of “one China,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s press service reported, UNN reported.
“Kuleba said that China is a great country. Uzbekistan and China are strategic partners and important economic and trade partners. Ukraine supports China’s position on the Taiwan issue and will continue to adhere to one China,” the Chinese Fo
Ukraine knows that insulting China when at war with their no limit friends is not going to bode well on Beijing
And has no gains from doing so
Every country with a diplomatic relationship with China has to repeat this line in every of their joint statements. Either a more vague *One China Policy* (US approach) or the *One China Principal*. Some outlets just decide to make a headline each time.
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Incoming Chinese lead peace process? China certainly have more leverage over Russia than US/Europe.
Pretty much every country has this stance and it still doesn’t mean Taiwan is part of China because Taiwan is already independent.
The Chinese leadership are like angry infants and we tell them this to shut them up
Not a surprise, considering they have been pretty adamant on One Ukraine Policy themselves.
And that is geopolitics, self serving interests- there goes to show all the people who dismissed me before.
We’re not in the black and white “team red vs team blue” world of the cold war any more (and even then geopolitics could be complicated).
China is generally neutral(ish) on the Russo-Ukrainian war. It does not benefit from a Russian victory, nor from a Russian defeat. China is fine to purchase energy and raw materials from Russia, while exporting machine tools, drones, and fill in the gaps in the Russian market post-sanctions. It does not, however, directly sell weapons, and technically bans sale of equipment to the Russian military, meaning any Russian military purchase of Chinese drones or black market microchips has to go through a whole a network of profiteering middlemen, jacking up the cost of war for the Russians.
China is equally willing to do the same for Ukraine of course – buy food and fuel, sell drones and parts. China had plenty good relations with Ukraine as well in the recent past, since post-Soviet Ukraine often sold China weapons, designs, and industrial assistance that the Russians tried to keep secret/didn’t want to provide (China’s first aircraft carrier the Liaoning, the prototype for the carrier flanker version, the Zubr class amphibious assault ships… the list goes on). It’s just that Ukraine is further away from China, has a smaller budget to work with, and has more partners it can trade with, so China is trading more with the isolated Russia than with Ukraine.
Chinese “neutrality” is fairly consistent with the rest of its foreign policy of “you guys sort out your own problems, and I’ll sort out mine”, and considering how close Beijing is with Moscow, this is probably the best outcome Ukraine can reasonably expect from the Chinese.
In exchange, Ukraine will continue to abide by things like the One-China policy, and won’t call China out publically on sensitive issues. China continues to sit this war out, and maybe at some point if Beijing gets sufficiently fed up with Russia’s bungled empire-building, maybe China will even start to exert pressure on Russia to conclude the war more towards Ukraine’s favour.
It would be newsworthy if they didn’t tbh
Even the US doesn’t recognize Taiwan as outright independent
so does the US (sorta)
Why does a Ukrainian news article quote the Chinese Foreign Minister paraphrasing the Ukrainian Foreign Minister?
Could they not source a direct quote from the Ukrainian Foreign Minister?
So does the US along with the majority of the other nations on Earth. It isn’t worth bickering over semantics most of the time.
Does Ukraine also support Russia’s position on Ukraine? Let’s be consistent!
Can this also become news? All countries that have established diplomatic relations with China will sign the “One China Declaration” document, even those countries with the most anti-China politicians, US either Sweden.
So does the US.
Officially US also “supports” China’s position on Taiwan. This just means that Ukraine did not sever diplomatic relationship with China and establish one with Taiwan, means very little.
Maybe it’s best for everyone to recognise this neutral position so that Taiwan and their allies don’t get dragged into a war against a massive power just like how Ukraine has been.
Russia at one point used historic claims as one of the excuses to invade, similar arguments as China invading Taiwan. It is tbh logically strange for Ukraine to say that, almost like a double standard against herself, but I can understand the reality that pushing China further to help Russia will only make it more difficult for Ukraine.
The cold hard reality is that Ukraine actually helped China a lot in modernisation of military, and once Russia invaded China pay back by supplying resources and goods to Russia. It is a cruel world out there and without strength to protect yourself there will be no end to compromise for Ukraine.
This, immediately after China said it wouldn’t be helping Russia in the war? I mean, it doesn’t exactly take a political genius to put the pieces together.
And rightfully so because both nations are in the same boat.
Chinese Taipei is rightfully Chinese territory being occupied by an adversarial government contesting Chinese sovereignty.
Ukraine is in a similar situation with the Donbas and Luhansk regions, where it is rightfully their territory but is occupied by an adversarial government contesting Ukrainian sovereignty.