China must walk the talk and support Russia

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by Ghassan Kadi , The Saker, April 12, 2018

This article was written before the most recent missile attack on Syria, carried out by the US, France, and the UK.  Its argument retains relevance.

When Chinese Defence Minister, General Wei Fenghe visited Moscow on the 4th of April 2018 and made his historic comment that he was in Moscow to give a message to America that China stands by Russia (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-04/chinas-new-defence-chief-visits-russia-to-send-a-message-to-us/9616216), he put China in a new and unprecedented global position, because China had never made such direct statements about the USA since the early days of Chairman Mao; and that was a long time ago, when China was not an industrial power and an aspiring global power, and long before the rift between the USSR and Mao’s China began.

A lot has changed since, and neither Russia nor China are today what they used to…

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