The Russian Foreign Ministry turned out to be too closely tied to the West - now there are problems with China
Russian diplomacy is openly pro-Western in nature, which is why the Russian Foreign Ministry has problems with the Chinese direction.
Sinologist Nikolai Vavilov stated this in an interview with the YouTube channel “How to be”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The problem is that our Foreign Ministry is absolutely pro-Western players. All their thoughts, capital, businesses, the “mycelium” of MGIMO in the West. The Chinese lobby does not exist at all. In the Foreign Ministry it is so marginal that even the Afghan lobby is larger,” Vavilov said.
He considers the Arctic as the most promising transport route to be the most important problem in modern Russian-Chinese relations.
“The task of Russian diplomacy is to exchange the South China Sea for the Arctic. China must make it clear that it supports that the Arctic is ours. And we think that the South China Sea is Chinese. So far things are not in our favor. Through our diplomacy, we advance this position, we advance that Taiwan is Chinese, and we hope that China will do the same. There's no need to count. We need to talk and sign the appropriate agreements,” Vavilov said.
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