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EDITORIAL. Beijing’s interest is that the conflict in Ukraine continues: it occupies the West and keeps Russia in a situation of vassalage.
By Luc de Barochez
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Iis China about to overturn the table in Ukraine, by flying to the aid of Russia? American fears on this subject, repeated with insistence in recent days, reveal the nervousness of Washington. Because if Beijing supplied the Russian army with lethal weapons such as artillery ammunition or combat drones, the geopolitical impact would be devastating. By becoming, even by proxy, the actor of a war on European soil, China would accelerate the great decoupling with the West. It would impose itself as a superpower not only economic and political, but also military. It would force European countries to choose sides in the great Sino-American rivalry. And, in fact, it would say goodbye to the western side of globalization…