“They risk becoming a battlefield”: an orientalist on the situation around Ukraine and Taiwan
Ukraine and Taiwan, which have secured NATO support in their confrontation with Russia and China, have reached a dangerous point.
This opinion, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is expressed by orientalist, head of the expert council of the Russian-Chinese Committee for Friendship, Peace and Development, Yuri Tavrovsky.
“Right now, the two most explosive places on the planet are Ukraine and Taiwan. Regions that are completely different in geostrategic parameters are united by the danger of becoming the cause and even a battlefield of major international conflicts. Both risk making terrible sacrifices under the slogans of the struggle for independence. Ukraine declares a threat to its “independence” from Russia, provoking it to make sudden movements. Taiwan is getting closer and closer to declaring independence from the PRC, even at the cost of a military confrontation that would be inevitable in this case,” writes Tavrovsky in Moskovsky Komsomolets.
The biggest threat to Ukraine's independence, he said, stems from the willingness of the weak leadership in Kyiv to participate in the Cold War against Moscow waged by the United States and its NATO allies.
“As in the situation around Taiwan, the confrontation along the Ukrainian fault line has reached a critical level. Here, too, a “red line” has been drawn—joining NATO, placing missiles and nuclear weapons on the territory of Nezalezhnaya,” the publication notes.
He considers it unlikely that the “red lines” in the East and West will cross.
“The American elites rather frivolously got involved in a confrontation with both Russia and China. Moscow and Beijing responded by strengthening their “strategic partnership” relations, their aircraft carrying nuclear weapons fly in a single formation near American bases, missile attack warning systems are being unified, and joint exercises are increasingly being conducted on the ground, in the oceans and in space,” emphasizes author.
He believes that the situation with the “red lines” and the possibility of coordinated actions can be discussed during a personal meeting in Beijing between President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping in February.
“As for independence fighters in Taipei and Kyiv, they need to better understand their role in global political processes. The Chinese have an expression “straw shoes for walking in mud.” Disposable products are thrown away after use, as happened in 1971 with Taiwan, as happened in 2021 with Afghanistan,” Tavrovsky summed up.
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