Posted on 04/28/2024 10:01:41 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
China is waiting for the Russian Federation to collapse so it can seize a slice of land taken from it by Russia 200 years ago, it has been claimed.
Beijing has been a crucial supporter of Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine and was essentially cut off from the Western world due to sanctions.
But Canadian journalist and author Diane Francis believes that China is also preparing to take back a slice of land in the far east of Russia.
Speaking to Times Radio, she explained how the war in Ukraine may have just Beijing-Moscow relations.
She said: "China was put in a terrible position. They had an Olympics they were proud of in 2022, and Putin went there and got Xi to sign a partnership agreement without telling him that three days later he was going to genocidally invade his neighboring country.
"He never told Xi. This was hugely embarrassing."
Ms Francis believes the Russian Federation will collapse after the war in Ukraine, allowing China to reclaim land previously under its jurisdiction.
She added: "China is very much involved in what happens to Russia after this is over. Many of us speculate that once the centre doesn't hold and they lose the war, whoever replaces Putin is not going to be able to hold on to 11 timezones of nation.
"It is just too big a country. At the far-east edge is Manchuria, which was stolen from China over 100 years ago. They want Manchuria back, and they are going to get it.
"The minute there is weakness, they will move. Not necessarily with troops but they will move politically to seize control of it."
This week, Putin announced plans to visit China in May. His announcement came while US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken was in the country to meet President Xi.
According to a recent U.S. assessment, China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics, and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in the conflict.
China has repeatedly said it isn’t providing Russia with arms or military assistance, although it has maintained robust economic connections with Moscow.
Russia invaded Manchuria in 1900 after the after the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895.
“it has been claimed”
that sounds convincing.
I agree with that. I would rather see them as Western-aligned allies than what the relationship we have now. Problem is, I hardly recognize what passes for today’s “West” and we are locked in a cold war with forces within our own country that are slowly transforming the United States into something that is no longer united.
Yikes! And the United States locked in a North American Union with Canada, Mexico...and Greenland!
It all looks like a risky venture! :-D
“Canadian journalist and author Diane Francis believes...”
Must be true then.
So does Russia.
Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests – Lord Palmerston
China taking a page out of Stalins play book. Unfortunately for Stalinthe Germans were more efficient in it’s conquest of Europe. Things seem to be going more favorable for China while their two biggest enemies (Russia and the West) deplete each other’s resources.
Asia is game to you?
That’s what Mao did during WWII, got Chiang Kai-Shek and the Japs to kill each other off, and used the US for his own means.
The new Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Author is short sighted. If China can take Manchuria, it can easily take the rest of the Russian Far East, and so it will.
China will collapse. 20 years at most.
Oh, BS. They are not about to piss off the Russians right now, when the two of them are teaming up against the US. Give it ten or twenty years maybe.
“She is also a regular contributor to the Atlantic Council, New York Post, the Huffington Post, and the Kyiv Post, as well as newspapers around the world... She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center in autumn 2005 and has been a media fellow at the World Economic Forum.”
Atlantic Council, NY Post, HuffPo, KievPost, Harvard, WEF....
Quite a pedigree.
The hyperlink from the graphic you posted shows that it was found on and reproduces into this thread from a Ukrainian site. A hotlink by which to verify this is:
The babel.ua domain was created 2020-08-07, and is hosted by Hosting Ukraine LLC, according to whois.com.
As to Stalin, here is an actual "wedding" photo and far less entertaining photo, found at Carnegie Endowment:
One wonders what such a historic photo will look like, when this war ends.
As to swastikas in current political protests, one finds:
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