China könnte den Ukrainekrieg „leicht“ beenden, sagt EU -Außenpolitik Chef
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/china-could-easily-end-ukraine-war-says-eu-foreign-policy-chief-pcp26lnjs?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1744369836
China könnte den Ukrainekrieg „leicht“ beenden, sagt EU -Außenpolitik Chef
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/china-could-easily-end-ukraine-war-says-eu-foreign-policy-chief-pcp26lnjs?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1744369836
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China could end the war in Ukraine if it wanted to, the EU’s foreign policy chief has said, as defence ministers gathered at Nato in Brussels to pledge more support for Ukraine.
Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia, said that without Beijing’s help, Russia would be unable to sustain the war at the same scale, adding: “It is clear that if China would really be against this war they could easily stop this.”
She also told BBC Radio 4 that Europe was seen as a “credible and reliable” defence and security partner by countries around the world in light of President Trump’s trade war. She said “there are no winners in trade wars”, but pointed out that Trump’s tariff war had raised the “political power” of the EU.
Her remarks came as John Healey, the British defence secretary, chaired a meeting of the Ukraine defence contact group in Brussels, along with his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius
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China indeed has a lot of leverage over Russia, but what interest does China have to actually do anything to stop the war in Ukraine? They seem to profit quite a lot from it.
~~The naivity of European policymakers/diplomats never ceases to amaze me.~~
« Easily » is quiet the stretch, but they could definitely do it, if they so desired.
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If Russia wins it’s a strategic and symbolic defeat for the west, if Russia loses then they will become even more reliant on China, and if the war continues American military assets are tied up in Europe instead of being relocated to the pacific. Why would China do anything other than sit back and watch it play out?
What’s the point of the statement and the article? It’s like stating that the sky turns orange when there’s dust in the air. Sure, it’s true, but how does it impact us right here and now?
I didn’t say „Easily“ but China could do more.
But why would China do that? It’s been benefiting from this scenario.
And now with Trump in power and allies fighting among themselves. I know this harms the world, but it’s really funny to see the United States and China fighting to see who has the bigger dick. Lol
And people forget that some European countries are expanding to East. And supporting Taiwan and things that go against Chinese interests.
Why would China betray an ally to help the other Europeans?
The last few years European leaders were very busy jumping at every opportunity to declare their loyalty to USA and declare in grandiose discourses that China is evil and must be contained.
„Betray your ally, help me out in a major way, and I may slap more sanctions on you“ doesn’t sound much convincing.
China could certainly apply pressure, but they couldn’t force Russia to stop.
EU is leveraging US tradewars to help the Ukrainian cause. China needs the EU to offset the lost trade with the US. This is a very good opportunity for EU to compel China to pressure Putin to negotiate.
Offer them free trade on solar panels and grid batteries with the EU. We need them, they have the best and cheapest anyway.
It’s technologies that don’t make us dependent on them in the long term and unlike network technologies it doesn’t allow them to spy on us.
Also it would offer us as level of energy sovereignty.
Sure we should build them ourselves but we can’t right now. We can’t do everything and it’s the same with the US.
Why would China go against their own national interest? Yes they are interested in keeping European stability (because they are customers) but they also want to take Taiwan and for that they need Russia on their side. If they betray Russia now, Russia will become even more unstable and might even side with the US out of spite. Considering the past history of conflict between the Soviets and the Chinese (they almost went to war in 1969) that is something that the CCP wants to avoid.
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right now it’s quite an interesting dynamic
china needs EU to fight US in this trade war. EU needs China to end the war in Russia
but neither trust each other
China does not want to lose an ally in Russia for nothing. But US is actively pulling Russia away from China
it’s in their strategic interest of find new allies. however it’s likely EU will only help China by opening up their markets more if China stop supporting Russia in the war in Ukraine
I don’t think EU and China will reach a deal anytime soon. China will likely need to look for help elsewhere.
however currently other countries are not too found of US so US has no allies in helping with their trade war againt China either.
we will see how it plays out.
so NATO can take in Mongolia, got it.
I would be more interested in what the EU foreign policy chief thinks the EU could do about it.
EU just got enormously more leverage on China because of the us tariffs. So there is definitely an opportunity to put pressure on China to stop aiding Russians.
EU is even in a more advantage position regarding ending the war.