Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged China and Russia to jointly oppose any attempts to bring discord to the friendship and mutual trust between the two sides. The Chinese leader made the call in an op-ed published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Wednesday, May 7, ahead of his arrival in Russia for a state visit and participation in celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in the Great Patriotic War.
‘China and Russia are weighty powers that have significant influence in the world and make a constructive contribution to maintaining the world’s strategic stability and improving global governance,’ the article said.
Many big words lose their meanings when placed in the different contexts of time, circumstances, and generations. For example, the term “Feelings of Ukrainian nationhood”, placed in the context and personal memories of, say, a hypothetical 40 years old craftsman from the city of Gorlovka, Donetsk, who during the years from 2009 to 2012 travelled infrequently between Kiev and his hometown, or another hypothetical case of his neighbour’s daughter, born in 2008 as an Ukrainian, yet from her innocent childhood years from age 6 till age 17 knew mainly the horrifying piercing sounds of Ukrainian shells falling all around the houses around on her street, we certainly would be talking about drastically different emotions and memories.
Hence, if we would move thousands of miles eastward, to the distant territories of the People’s Republic of China, we would be no less misguided and deluded, if we should casually assume that there exists such a thing as “China’s singular long term strategic thinking regarding future alliances and self identity”… than if we had absent-mindedly absorbed the typical gibberish echoing relentlessly during the last decade in nearly all respectable European and US media, regarding “national will for the awakened people of Ukraine”.
China: a huge nation with multiple millions of different personal ambitions, delusions, and psychological phobia projected to supposedly unfriendly foreign nations, now under a strong willed leader who for many reasons made a commitment to stand close to Russia. There will probably be a greater level of stability with China’s future international stances, compared with the case of Ukraine as manifested during the years from 2010 to 2025.
The people living around what used to be South-eastern Ukraine had endured unspeakable suffering and trial, psychologically, emotionally, and often physically, during the aforementioned period. As though by edicts of biblical destiny, it was indeed their suffering and their heroism in these times which brought about the initial capsizing of a huge ship, which at one time seemed irreversible, and invincible. The ship was called “Liberal Western Globalization”.
Alternatively, the ship could be understood as unending party and festival drunkenly sailing onwards, to endless expansion of EU, NATO, and weekly homosexual pride marches, and new generations of Ukrainian children happily and triumphantly and contemptuously forgetting last syllable of Russian language. There had been a shipwreck. And it was not only because 10 years ago the face of Dmitro Yarosh already looked quite menacing, murderous, and psychopathic, not quite suitable to be kissed on the forehead by prim and Germanic Frau Ursula Von de Lyon, or that 52 people burned alive in the Odessa Union Building (May 2nd 2014, no I do not forget) while crowds all around cheered and danced, for whatever reason, made not exactly attractive background music national conversion to red-black Banderism and starry blue Europeanism.
No, the shipwreck happened. In 2025, Europe has become unrecognizable, and USA has become unrecognizable. This is obvious not just from comparison to how they both looked like still in year 2010. Chain events of changes started with the fire, the bombs and the suffering in Donbass since 2014. The collapse of globalism became irreversible, because of the dignity, and heroism, of the people of Donbass and Novorussia.
Was this process similar to how things happened in 1812? In that year the city of Moscow burned. It all started with the passions of revolution in France. They chopped off the heads of hundreds and thousands of people, all under the slogan of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite. But instead we received the heads rolling on the sidewalks. And Napoleon’s army burning and killing and slaughtering all across the European continent, all the way to Moscow. Then, the Russians stopped him, and defeated him.
We should not understand the history prior to 1812 through the big words about freedom and equality. And by the same principle we should not get confused in our time by new “big words” such as the sacred new values of Europe, the national will of Ukraine, or the abrupt abandonment of Ukraine, because someone decided to make America great again. Yes, in year 2025 someone decided that it would be madness to go through all these wars and parties just to make China great. So Make America Great Again changed the dynamics of the Special Military Operation. It reversed the fortunes of T shirt man Zelensky and his now quieter elder brother Dmitry Yarosh. And from here there arose a hope that Russia and China should not be friends. And in exchange the “National Awakening of Ukraine” could be sold off cheaply like falling stocks and wrecked investments.
My personal hope is that Russia will quietly throw this invitation into the bottom drawer where other useless papers lie. And will do nothing to jeopardize the friendship with the huge and complex and changing nation of China.
