All of these ideas are reasonable. But it is liable to fail This is because the action is paralyzed in the face of a global crisis due to a chronic leadership vacuum far from being able to act decisively on the global stage.
When the war began nearly two weeks ago, China's response was predictably narcotic: the West is to blame, sanctions are counterproductive, and "all sides" must use restraint (as if it were an argument between equals and both sides. The guilt). . At first, it was possible to see China as simply caught in a dilemma - forced to throw out the cliché because they were shocked by Russia's behavior but refused to criticize their closest friend.
But 10 days later, Foreign Minister Wang Yi doubled his support for Moscow, calling Russia on Monday his country's "most important strategic partner". Responding to growing hopes that China could use its influence with Moscow to mediate, he said the country could do so "when the time is right", in other words, not in a significant period of time that would stop the bloodshed.
China's reservation is not new. For decades, western leaders have pushed China to become a strategic partner or stakeholder in the global international order. Many have imagined that China will come to the apartment sooner or later, and in an emergency like today, its diplomats will use their good offices to resolve a global crisis.
But the reality is that China is so obsessed with a narrow set of questions that it can be no more than a typical actor on the international stage, appearing in several specific roles but otherwise going beyond its depth.
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China is revolved around two domestic issues, mainly Taiwan and human rights. Countries that do not follow China's line with Taiwan - that they must return to China, no matter what their people think - are ruthlessly persecuted. For example, China's economic impact on Lithuania. Last year, Taiwan allowed Taiwan to use the name Taiwan for a representative office that opened in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. China insists that countries only allow Taiwan to call its office 'Taipei', after its capital, as if it were just a province.
Another major issue of human rights is that anyone who claims that human rights are universal is interfering in China's internal affairs. To this end, China supports other countries that are also being criticized for violating the declaration, arguing that it is also about their internal affairs.
But on most other issues, China does not really care. Drugs, terrorism, public health, climate change: China is interested in all these issues, but rarely takes the lead. the best Offer some ideas and follow the proposals of other countries.
This myopic focus on domestic concerns is particularly pronounced under Xi Jinping, the least cosmopolitan leader to lead the People's Republic in almost half a century.
China's current system was launched in the late 1970s under Deng Xiaoping, who was willing to loosen the Communist Party's grip on society to allow China to develop. Two of Deng's elected successors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, had their drawbacks, but they had relatively similar views on increasing the Communist Party's attractiveness and seeking better ties with its neighbors.
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