Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin reinforced Russia’s support for China, backing Beijing’s claims over Taiwan and downplaying concerns about Sino-Russian cooperation.

At the Valdai forum, Putin stated that Russia views China as an ally with a “reasonable” policy on Taiwan, accusing Taiwan of provoking a Ukraine-style crisis in Asia.

He highlighted the strong trade and security ties between Russia and China, asserting that joint military exercises between the two nations are defensive and comparable to U.S.-Japan drills, and pose no threat to other countries.

  • enkers
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    1021 hours ago

    Isn’t this a bit of a predicament for Trump? Traditionally the US has supported Taiwan’s independence, and it seems to me that’d be continued under Trump’s “China bad” rhetoric/policy. However, getting chummy with Putin might require rescinding support for Taiwan’s independence.

    Am I missing something here?

    • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      3420 hours ago

      Traditionally the US

      There’s your mistake. Trump doesn’t give a fuck about what the US traditionally does, and neither do his supporters. Same as Trump being blatantly pro-Russia despite the US, and the US right in particular, traditionally being anti-Russia.

      They don’t give a fuck if they’ve always been at war with Eurasia or Eastasia. All they care about is having the proles crushed beneath them, and whatever Big Brother figure promises them that, they’ll gleefully bootlick for.

    • @wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Traditionally the US does not support Taiwan independence. Go look it up.

      Though it is true that they are quietly trying to push their puppets in Taiwan to declare independence because they know damned well that is the only way they will get the war they so desperately want.

      The vast majority of the Taiwanese want the status quo to remain exactly as it is

      • @yeahiknow3
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        1116 hours ago

        This comment is such a blatant lie that I’m going to assume it’s disinformation.

            • @wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world
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              -1116 hours ago

              That is not proof. It is also a cropped photo. The uncropped version shows Tiananmen Square at the top but it doesn’t show what your propagandists want it to show. I’ll post it for you when I get home.

              • @yeahiknow3
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                1416 hours ago

                I thought maybe you were in China. Damn, looks like you’re just a moron.