Posted on 05/06/2024 8:54:39 PM PDT by McGruff
President Xi Jinping of China, on a two-day visit to France, spoke out firmly against criticism of his country for its close relationship with Russia during the war in Ukraine, saying that “we oppose the crisis being used to cast responsibility on a third country, sully its image and incite a new cold war.”
Flanked by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, with whom he held several rounds of talk on Monday, Mr. Xi stiffened as he defended China’s role, recalling it was “not at the origin of this crisis, nor a party to it, nor a participant.”
The bristling remark appeared aimed principally at the United States, which believes that China, aside from buying enormous amounts of Russia oil and gas, continues to aid Moscow’s war in Ukraine by providing satellite imagery to Russian forces along with jet fighter parts, microchips and other dual-use equipment.
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He also gets upset over Winnie the Pooh for “some reason”.
Satellite imagery? Why?
Russian recon assets in orbit over Ukraine are line of sight to the downlink centers near Moscow. Instantaneous.
Why would they wait for an asset to be in range of a Beijing facility for downlink and then transfer to Moscow.
This is easy stuff, but you will never have a journalist talk to anyone who would know. They talk instead to people trying to generate viewcounts for their youtube vids.
So the Globalist Left thinks the ChiCom Left ought to be a natural ally. Because “Left”.
These people are a caricature, and a dangerous one.
I guess that was Hitler’s big mistake - if he had used a hammer and sickle instead of a swastika he would be a campus legend today.
“According to the report, the top three recipients of oil included Russia (30%), France (15%), and China (10%)”
and at the time-Russia, France and China all members of the UN Security Council aided and abetted avoidance of Iraqi sanctions while bristling over suggestions about it happening.
Good.
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