"Bro, let me explain something to you..."
You have to hand it to Putin. The guy's got guts. He's taking on the World and he really, really needs friends, but does he even care? Not much, if his attitude to his main friend China is anything to go by.
The one thing China is most concerned about is people redrawing borders and provinces breaking away. This is because of Taiwan, technically part of China and recognised as such even by the USA, but clearly a part of China that is reluctant for all sorts of reasons to go back.
In fact, the Taiwanese would love nothing better than to have a referendum and declare themselves fully independent and separate forever from China. Too bad there don't seem to be too many examples of that...
In fact, the Taiwanese would love nothing better than to have a referendum and declare themselves fully independent and separate forever from China. Too bad there don't seem to be too many examples of that...
But then along comes Putin who rips up the map and declares four separate breakaway votes in one day!
Of course, the referendums are fake, but how can you say that part out loud if you are Xi Jinping and supposed to be friends with the guy? The truth is that the four referendums in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and the other bit set an extremely uncomfortable precedent for China.
If four parts of the Ukraine (five if you also count Crimea), which don't even want to exit the Ukraine, can up and leave, what about Taiwan, which has been living apart from China for over 70 years and where almost nobody wants to be part of China again?
Xi Jinping is renowned for his calm, poker-faced approach to diplomacy, but behind the scenes he must be tearing out his hair and throwing darts into his autographed photograph of Vladimir Putin.
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