Beware of fierce Chinese dragons that complete peace proposals to end the bloody fight in Ukraine. They are not what they seem.
In February, Chinese officials thought of hosting Xi JinpingPeace summitWith President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Team Trump wisely dismissed XI as an intermediary, given the growing military and economic alliance between Moscow and Beijing.
Xi’s offer was actually a Trojan horse, which was best made to achieve the unintentional surrender of Ukraine at the price of America, and mostly, was calculated to buy Putin’s time because his army is stuck in a war of war.
Now we are looking at the real intentions of China. Beijing rapidly sees Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a useful proxy war against America
Team Trump wants to eliminate completely insensitive bloodshed. The XI, however, is now aiming to prolong the war to reduce the strategic reserves of American weapons and sages and can be provided time to the Kremlin for the reconstruction of its badly made army.
Beijing’s involvement in Putin’s war was first indirect, coming in the form of cheap oil and gas purchase and then as dual use technologies.
Now, Xi is giving up pretense. In Brussels last week, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that quiet part said loudly. during aprivate conversationWith Kaza Kallas, he clarified that “Beijing Russia cannot accept Russia to lose his war against Ukraine as it may allow the United States to pay full attention to China.”
Then, on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky brought receipts. Ukraine’s Security Service is changing through the debris of Putin on a large scale of Putin on Kiev,Found proofFive Chinese companies were directly supplying major components of the Russian-made edition of Irani Shahd 136/131 drones.
Ukraine immediately imposed economic sanctions on five Chinese companies whose stamps were found in drones – Central Asia Silk Road International Trade, Suzau ECOD Principal Manufacturing, Shenzhen Royo Technology, Shenzen Jinduobang Technology and Ningbo Blin Machinery.
Since the onset of the war in February 2022, Beijing has taken an official approach to neutrality. In fact, however, Xi is completely colliding with Putin.
We have warned for a long time this growingConceptual warHe is teasing against Russia and China – Iran and North Korea with his axis – Washington and Brussels. It is rapidly becoming kinetic and rapidly becoming global in nature.
This is oneworld WarThis is not the version of such a war of Hollywood-any mushroom cloud or nightmare after day-to-old scenarios-the war of death with a thousand cuts.
The use of Putin of Chechen soldiers was the first indicator of this. Then hisSupport of 7 October.To cover your retaliation in avdivka. Then North Korean soldiers, and now allegedly 50 Laotian engineers. Beijing is oneChief investorIn Laos, including China-Loss Economic Corridor and China-Laos Railway.
Now the role of Beijing is increasing rapidly in the open. NATO general secretary Mark Rute added all these dots in an interview with New York Times.
Rute warns: “If Xi Jinping attacks Taiwan, he will first ensure that he makes a call to his very junior partner, Vladimir Vladimirovich lives in Putin, Moscow, and tells him, ‘Hey, I am going to do this, and I need to keep you busy in Europe by attacking the NATO region.”
In that context, it is easy to see how China now sees Putin’s war against Ukraine because its own proxy war against America is very real and their fate is connected.
If the west loses in Ukraine, Xi gets a win, as Putin will be free to use its reconstruction army against NATO. If Putin is defeated in Ukraine, the team can suffer a serious damage on Trump Xi-and in Taiwan can lead a long way to prevent Beijing and in other places in Indo-Pacific.
Beijing is actively preparing for this fight. According to China, John Noh, Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense of Indo-Stirity Affairs,building“A large and advanced arsenal of atoms, traditional, cyber and space capabilities” and “dominating the Indo-Pacific region and displacing the United States as the world’s most powerful nation.”
Xi’s proxy war against Trump in Ukraine is only the opening act of Beijing. If we are meant to win this second Cold War, ensuring Putin’s defeat in Ukraine should become a strategic end state for the White House. Two conflicts are actually connected.
Greenlighting of Trump of defensive weapons is a welcome first step for Ukraine. But more needs to address the danger of the drone. The Patriot missile battery has no utility against them, and Russia clearly has no shortage of them. In June, Russians launched5,438Drone towards Ukrainian cities. Tuesday night, Putin launched another728 drones and 13 missilesin Ukraine. NATO was forcedScramble fighter jetsIn response to its enemy and Iskander missiles.
Team Trump needs the then President Joe Biden’s “boom in security aid and Ukraine needs to re -create and create a series of additional action to help win this war”. September And December 2024.
The war requires aggressive tasks to win – they can cross the border in Ukraine before provoking Russian contingent structures and their equipment, while defeating arms systems on their launch sites with deep attacks. Both require arms systems, monks, intelligence and authorities to attack goals in Russia.
If Putin is not ready to stop himself, the US and NATO should stop Russian attacks. No other sanctuary to Russia can be done by Western weapons and their sages. Coupled withRestriction billSensor.
air defenseIt remains important. As we have said earlier, “Ukraine requires a continuous, integrated and layered air defense network, including the no-fly zone, which is similar to an Israel employed to defeat two Iranian missile attacks in April and October 2024.” Putting the weapon systems in Ukraine does not solve the problem.
Similarly, our European partners should also do more. It begins with an alliance no-fly zone implementation on western Ukraine-EuropeanSky shieldInitiative.
China’s proxy war against the US in Ukraine is still beginning. Trump, a winning team in Ukraine, is now a national imperative and requires a “all-in” approach.
Mark tothWrite on national security and foreign policy. Colonel (Rit.)Jonathan SweetHe served 30 years as an army intelligence officer.
