Pierre Grosser: “Beijing is also asking for Russian support”

ATfter a month of war, all eyes are on China and its growing support for the Russian aggressor. Since the birth of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, relations between the two giants have hardly been a calm river, marked by thirty years of estrangement, between 1960 and 1990. But the upturns and rapprochements have also existed, until today, described by the specialist in Asian geopolitics, Pierre Grosser, author of The history of the world is made in Asia (Odile Jacob).

Point : In the past, it seems that it was during the Korean War that the Chinese really supported their Russian neighbor…

Peter Grosser: It was a division of labor between communists, with China in charge of revolutionary solidarity in Asia. The…