Beijing would like to participate in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, China’s foreign aid and international development agency announced on Monday.
After backing up Russia and supplying them with military hardware? Fuck off!
Playing all sides for fun and profit, a tale as old as time.
“Post-war”?
Like, don’t lift a finger to help, until everything is over? Tell the struggling, smaller country about financial support once they’re defeated? Because let’s be real, that’s what this means if they’re offering it right now. Diplomatically it’s beyond tone-deaf. BTW, does China still claim to not be on Russia’s side but “neutral”?
I hope Zelensky tells them they’ll get contracts if they help right now, and only then.
They’ve been provisioning Russia.
The more butchered the West is, the better for China’s future-dominion, right?
They’ve no intention of allowing Ukraina to have trustworthy infrastructure, if they can instead be infested with spyware, providing the CCP with all the leverage they can get in the region…
They’re not stupid.
Machiavellian, certainly, as all the major-players in our world now are, but not stupid.
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Likely as not Chinese companies will profit through shell corporations and NGOs rebuilding Russia and Ukraine. The US could’ve but they dismantled USAID and are actively courting Russian interests in the region.