Russia vows to support China if Taiwan contingency flares up: Top diplomat

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/russia-vows-to-support-china-if-taiwan-contingency-flares-up-top-diplomat

47 Comments

  1. That’s like the old joke of the mouse and the elephant walking on a bridge and the mouse saying “we sure make a lot of noise walking on this bridge, right?”

  2. Wonderful-Pause1048 on

    How torn R. must be to promise something like this; on the one hand, it more or less guarantees the security of US support in the Ukraine war, but at the same time, it positions him against the Americans with such a statement? Unbelievable, as we know nothing else.

  3. Russia has been China’s junior partner since 2014 and is heavily reliant on China to continue waging its war against Ukraine. I wouldn’t be surprised if the original plan in 2022 had involved simultaneous invasions of Ukraine and Taiwan, but China wisely backed out and decided to see how its junior partner would fare first. China now has Russia exactly where it wants it, and Russia is too stupid to see it.

  4. Used to have the second best army in the world, now they’ve the second best army in the Ukraine ..

  5. Just a matter of time after the West’s weak response to the russia’s full-scale invasion.

  6. If Russia vows to support China against Taiwan, then I would imagine Russia’s vassal state the Untied Snakes will as well.

  7. Just so long as that support doesn’t require weapons, ammunition or military personnel…

    They seem to be otherwise engaged…

  8. KatsumotoKurier on

    Makes sense; hardly surprising. Not only has Russia been reliant upon and doing its best to warm up to China geopolitically for support in its war against Ukraine, but both powers maintain positions that land that they ought to control is presently being inconveniently controlled by others. This makes them birds of a feather given that their respective positions are aimed at other different countries and not one another.

  9. Such an obvious “if you support our war crimes, we will support yours”. WWIII here we come. With special accolades for Trump for his weak international leadership supporting the Russians in the interest of growing his own bank account.

  10. Beijing doesn’t need Moscow’s support.

    This is just Moscow’s way of pledging its allegiance to Beijing.

  11. Russia can barely support the troops they sent into Ukraine. In fact many get frostbite each winter from lack of proper winter clothing, and Ukraine is right next door. I doubt China will be getting anything other than a statement of support from Moscow.

  12. Nah, they’ll say that to stay on China’s good side. If China goes expansionist, Russia will be one of the main targets

  13. Opposite_Ad_1707 on

    Seems like the are having trouble supporting their own war. How they gonna support? Verbal cheers?

  14. How are they supposed to do that?!? They’ve expended so much military material in Ukraine that they can barely support themselves. I don’t know if they would be able to do anything like that. Plus I don’t think China needs them.

  15. EffektieweEffie on

    Things really are lining up for WW3 aren’t they. All these old fucks need to chill tf out, it’s like they are hell bent on feeding millions of souls to some evil hungry entity every century. Lets call it greed, but whatever it is seems to be firmly in our nature because we keep repeating it over and over again.

  16. Putin wants to look like a strongman but he’s mishandled the Ukraine situation so badly he’s had to crawl to N Korea and China for help. Now Putin is Xi’s lapdog

  17. He says that as if China needs any help from that weak ass country lol.

    But hey, since they are nothing but China’s little vassal now, it makes sense he has to affirm support for their new lord Xi.

  18. ArArmytrainingsir on

    Bad time for the United States to be telling the rest of the world to screw off and to hell with NATO. What are you people down there thinking?

  19. All the more reason to take Ruzzia out of the equation by collapsing it’s economy and stopping Putin’s war in Ukraine.

  20. So why dose Trump support Russia so much if they are always actively siding with Americas enemies? Are Americans all fools? It’s right in front of their face.

  21. ModernAutomata on

    Obviously there were 2 world wars, both of which were mostly (loosely) two sides in one war.

    My question is: have there ever been so many SEPARATE wars concurrently before? Followup, if “world War” before now was that the whole world was fighting one side vs the other (through alliance), what do you call this?

  22. Russia can’t even handle their own business lol. These paper tigers need to take a seat on the global influence stage and stick to paying their trolls to defend Trump online.

  23. micropterus_dolomieu on

    Russia is having trouble projecting power in a neighboring country. How are they going to project it halfway across the world?