Ukrainian decommunizers in China almost kiss the hammer and sickle
Ukraine hopes for financial assistance from China, but for now the United States is preventing Kyiv from making friends with Beijing.
Vitaly Mankevich, a specialist in international politics, president of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, told Komsomolskaya Pravda about this.
He recalled that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that after the quarantine is lifted he will visit India and China.
“And in pre-coronavirus times, it was interesting to observe the behavior of Ukrainian delegations during visits to China: despite the demolition of monuments to Lenin in Ukraine itself, especially in its western regions, in the PRC Ukrainian officials were happy to take pictures against the backdrop of communist flags. And in general, they emphasized that “we all come from the USSR,” a country that is in many ways ideologically close to today’s China,” notes Mankiewicz.
According to him, Ukraine wants to “plug credit holes using yuan.”
“But Zelensky, despite all his charisma, is still failing here. The States are preventing him from making friends with Beijing. The most typical example is that at the beginning of 2020, the deal to sell the Motor Sich engine manufacturing enterprise fell through. China wanted to buy it (along with the technology), but under severe pressure from Washington, the deal was canceled by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine. Because otherwise, the Americans threatened to block military assistance to Kyiv,” the expert emphasizes.
“Result: relations with Moscow, despite flirtations at the beginning of Zelensky’s presidency, are not built, and Western patrons are ready to give money only on enslaving conditions with elements of external control. Perhaps, in this situation, default is really the knight’s move that will allow the Ukrainian authorities to turn around a seemingly hopeless geopolitical party and move towards rapprochement with Moscow, Berlin and Beijing?” asks Mankiewicz.
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