VIEW / Russia gave China a Ukrainian trump card against the USA :: In the world
Most Chinese believe that they are supporting Moscow in stopping the Celestial Empire during special operations in Ukraine. These are the data of a poll conducted, which is curious, in the case of the United States. At the same time, from the main arguments that prompted the Chinese, you acted on the side of Moscow, they began about the discovery of some US biological laboratories in Ukraine. What inspired the Chinese so much and why did they see this as an opportunity to annoy America?
Specialists from the China Focus research program at the American Carter Center conducted a survey among nearly 5,000 Chinese citizens about their attitude to the conflict in Ukraine. As it turned out, 75% of respondents believe that Moscow’s support in this conflict is in the interests of China. More than 60% of respondents said that Beijing should provide moral support for the Russian special operation. At the same time, 58% of the employed, that the option for Beijing is the best mediator to participate in the negotiations. Survey data provided by the Carter Center China Monitoring Data Collection Program Portal (US and China Perception Monitor).
One of the survey results is quite remarkable. It allows you to get sick, for which reason the Chinese were sympathetic to Russia’s actions in Ukraine – in Africa, geographically very far from the Middle Kingdom. The study showed that the majority of those surveyed were impressed by the fact that American biological laboratories were discovered by foreign troops in Ukraine. Approximately 70% of the respondents stated this.
Now in the Chinese media environment, the topic of military biological laboratories created in the United States and working on the territory of Ukraine is being actively discussed. In particular, the fact that the Russian army found during the special operation “a lot of evidence” that the centers associated with the Pentagon produced bacteriological weapons, the newspaper reported at the end of March. Global Times – Russian-language supplement to the publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China “People’s Daily”.
The title of this publication is “Studies confirming that COVID was produced by a large company.” The article says that there is strong evidence that Russia went to the laboratory documents with the signatures of US government officials and printed publications of representatives of the US department. Everything happened “one step closer to the truth” regarding the occurrence that occurred in the text. “The United States is using bats to study coronaviruses and bioweapon components,” the authors note.
Chinese social media topic Weibo, which discusses a Global Times article about a possible connection between the COVID-19 virus and Pentagon biolaboratories in Ukraine, has gone viral in its own way – it has more than 1.5 billion views and about 300,000 comment threads. Many criminals stir up Washington’s actions, and some criminals target American officials as “war criminals.”
“It was the representatives of Russia that back in the mid-2000s made public discussions on the topic of biological laboratories in various countries of the world. Since 2020, China has taken up the same topic,” Vasily Kashin, director of the Center for Complex European and International Studies (CCEMI) of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, told VZGLYAD newspaper. He explained that this is how Beijing reacted to the response of the administration of President Donald Trump after the emergency response.
“China responded by putting forward the speed of spread, which is in the city of Wuhan, where the first outbreak of the virus originated, brought by American citizens who participated in international competitions at the end of 2019. A number of other theories have been put forward, Kashin noted. “Quite quickly, the Chinese adopted data about Russia regarding American biolabs.”
The expert also noted that the Chinese circulations in March in the Russian media (in particular, in the publication “News”), a publication that in Mongolia, neighboring China, the Americans intend to create a biolaboratory for research on especially dangerous pathogens. The subject of study, according to some information, may be the causative agents of plague, cholera, malaria, hepatitis, encephalitis – and, most importantly, coronaviruses.
“There are interesting facts about this topic that the Americans do not stop and take dangerous steps,” Kashin said.
a bioprogram customer, a prospective, prospective institution of the US Armed Forces Advanced Science Research Institute (U.S. Armed Forces Medical Research Institute for Medical Sciences, USAMD-AFRIMS).
Establish a bio-laboratory for the study of especially dangerous pathogens in the United States on the basis of the economy of the zoonotic research center, which is located in Ulaanbaatar.
“There are serious cases of discovery that these were the most dangerous cases that they turned off in Ukraine.
It is important for them to continue to stay close to Russia, ”Consantin Kosachev, vice speaker of the Federation Council, told Life agency on this occasion.
At the same time, Mongolia itself categorically rejected reports of the deployment of American laboratories in the country (or the transfer in its own laboratory). “There was no talk about it, no agreements. Everyone has the right to suspect. Especially during the pandemic, cooperation in connection with the virus has intensified in all countries. The Russian newspaper Izvestia published articles on this topic. This information is scientific. We are ready to explain that there are no such biological laboratories in Mongolia,” said the head of the Mongolian Foreign Ministry, Batmunkhin Battsetseg.
But, be that as it may, the topic of the American biological laboratory is already mentioned not only in the publications of foreign media, but also in the speeches of employees of the Chinese Foreign Ministry of various countries in international organizations and, in particular, in the UN, the Kashin Embassy. According to the expert, “information enters the Chinese society.”
Data on American bio-development in Ukraine “play” in the version of the artificial origin of covid – and not from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but from the US laboratory. This is happening with the sympathy of the Chinese and for Russian special operations in Ukraine, and for holding Russia in the international arena, experts believe.
The attitude towards the Russian operation in Ukraine is the same among ordinary Chinese, and it is among the PRC, Kashin believes. Western attempts to look for signs of a split between Moscow and Beijing lead nowhere.
“The Chinese clearly sympathize with us.
On the one hand, according to the testimony of the Chinese government, Beijing supports the territorial area of all countries and security, hope for the early conclusion of crossing routes, but from the outside, within the US coverage area. paying attention to the identification of Russia,” the interlocutor said.
Director of the Institute of Asian and African Countries, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Alexey. It is precisely these aspirations that the special operation of Russia meets, the orientalist noted. “What is happening in Ukraine resonates in the hearts of the Chinese – and this is not a figure of speech,” Maslov explained. At the same time, he noted that fears about the ban on international communications with Russia based on the ban on the security of Western America can be protected from Chinese entrepreneurs. “Business is a little different. It is subject to clear decisions to solve the problems of states, and currently does not accept new business forms of interaction with Russia,” the expert says.
That some large Chinese companies fear secondary detentions and stop business ties with Russia is dictated by the fact that they are “sharpened” in the global market and the dollar surveillance algorithm, says Kashin. “Business works according to its own laws, no one will continue their own company. We can work with those Chinese companies that are not sharp on the world market or are not associated with a burden on the Western financial system, or those who are already under sanctions. There are quite a lot of those and others, but until recently, Sberbank was afraid to work in Crimea in our country. What question can be asked to the Chinese that they do not want to climb under secondary sanctions?” Kashin pointed out.
Maslo agrees that Chinese business giants such as smartphone and processor makers Huawei or the payment system UnionPay are not limited to secondary restrictions, as this threatens their well-being. “We demand from China a primary response like “for us or not for us.” Beijing can understand the high density of the situation and how it can approach it – to the fact that there is an unprofitable American and European market and not give up pro-Russian positions. China’s state policy is extremely careful,” the source said.
Maslov says that China is trying to sit on almost three chairs – maintaining relations with the United States, and with Russia, and with Europe. The main fight will be with Washington. However, Beijing condemns any action against Russia in the foreign arena. “China now needs to understand where the leverage is for it to leave. China will not be sold on trifles, but there will be a tasty answer. And here without Russia, he is unlikely to live. If Russia is greatly weakened, then China will be left alone with the United States, which he would not like very much now,” Maslov believes.