As Saturday will see the second anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Chinese strategists, economists and experts on international relations have recently given their reviews of the crisis. They have a series of key findings, including that Russia will not be defeated by Western sanctions and weapons, and the Russian economy could re-rise in the future; the war is likely to be a long-term conflict; and the West is losing faith and the US might abandon Ukraine if Donald Trump gets elected later this year.
Although China is not directly involved in the Ukraine crisis, Chinese elites and the public have been paying close attention to the situation, as they care about its impact on the Chinese economy and China’s ties with Russia and the West. China has always tried to contribute to the mediation of the crisis and eyed a post-war reconstruction for the two countries, analysts said. They noted that all of these have driven Chinese scholars to make efforts to find valuable information from the conflict and use it to guide China’s policymaking.
Profound changes
The Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China (RDCY) held a senimar on Wednesday to release three major reports about the institute’s researches in the past two years about the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the findings about future development of China-Russia relations, as well as Russia’s domestic market after Western companies pulled out from the country in 2022.
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“The most important conclusion that we have drawn in the report is that the Russia-Ukraine conflict will become a long-term fight,” Wang said, citing the newly-released report.
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Remember when everyone thought locking Russia out of SWIFT was a nuclear move?
I think the real nuclear move would be the West giving seized Russian funds to Ukraine.
Not nuclear to Russia ofc, they know they’re never seeing that money. Nuclear to the Western financial system of dollars and Euros because nobody will ever want to park their funds in those currencies when they can just be seized and redistributed for political reasons.
There are few interesting lib comments about it here, especially two are fun: one person says the company in title should be nationalized if refusing to give up Russian funds, and second one saying that forfeiting forign assets in case of aggression should be automatic and cite… Syria as example, very visibly avoiding USA.