OPINION: The dangerous cost of China's Ukraine trick on Team Biden
FILE - In this June 28, 2021, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen leading other top officials pledging their vows to the party on screen during a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing. An avalanche of changes launched by China's ruling Communist Party has jolted everyone from tech billionaires to school kids.
And tricking leaders in Washington is what Beijing has been doing. Make no mistake, China’s recent diplomatic charm offensive aimed at positioning itself as a peacemaker in Ukraine is nothing but a Sun Tzu-inspired gimmick. Its purpose is to divert Washington’s attention from China’s real target – Taiwan, buy time to finalize the PLA’s war preparations, and then launch a surprise attack on Taiwan.
Moscow believes that without restoring its strategic security buffer zone -- of which Ukraine is part of, in Moscow’s view -- lost as a result of the collapse of the USSR, Russia will cease to exist as a state in the long-term. Loss of Ukraine to NATO, in Moscow’s rationale, would embolden other post-Soviet states, like Georgia and Moldova, to attain membership an alliance that Russia’s military doctrine has codified as security threat number one.
Despite China’s peacemaker theatrics, Beijing’s real goal is to keep the Russia-Ukraine conflict going as long as possible. China only benefits from having both of its primary perceived adversaries, the U.S. and Russia erode their respective combat arsenals in a proxy war. While Moscow and Beijing currently have joined forces against the common enemy, the U.S., in reality Russia and China are adversaries and are vying for dominance in Eurasia.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a meeting in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on July 9, 2022.
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