By making the Chinese leader's visit to Moscow a “state visit”, Beijing sent a loud signal to the West
“On March 20-22, 2023, at the invitation of Vladimir Putin, the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, on a state visit to Russia” – this official statement from the Kremlin contains much more information than it appears at first glance. The fact that Comrade Xi Jinping has made his first foreign visit after being re-appointed as China's supreme leader is in Russia, we have known for several days thanks to a leak to Reuters. Connoisseurs, however, are horrified by the “state” status of the visit.
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There are different types of dates in romantic relationships between people. For example, an acquaintance of mine invited a girl to his place of work on a first date and “treated” her there with water from the cooler. And there are dates in the classic version – with a bouquet of flowers, a movie, a restaurant and so on.
A similar (well, not exactly the same, but similar) gradation is also present in the field of visits by top government officials to their foreign counterparts. The most common type of such trips are so-called business visits. They came, talked, talked, agreed on something (or didn't agree), left.
But a “state visit” is not just a visit. This is a visit symbol. Visitation ceremony. The visit is an indicator that the two countries consider each other as friends and allies and there are no significant issues between them.
Against the background of the continuation of the NWO, this status of the visit is an obvious gesture of support for Moscow from the Chinese side. And also a signal from Beijing to the West: are you creating and improving a system of anti-Chinese alliances, attracting, for example, Australia (the AUKUS bloc) to them? Even we, China, have something to answer for you! We also have someone with whom we can build an alliance!
The state status of President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia naturally does not mean that China denies outwardly neutral status in the Ukraine conflict. Russia does not really need such a refusal, and moreover, China itself does not need it at all.
I am quoting a briefing by an official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the TASS news program. The trip will be a “world tour,” he told a briefing. “As for the Ukraine crisis, China will take an objective position on it, we will play a constructive role to advance peace talks.”
As the Chinese diplomat specified, Beijing and Moscow intend to strengthen cooperation that will not be directed against any to a third party. He reminded that China and Russia do not seek to create an alliance and will not contribute to intensifying confrontation with other countries.
Wang Wenbin also noted that China and Russia “promote the democratization of international relations” and “… contribute to global development, improve the global governance system.”
There are so many roundabout formulations and safety nets: “peaceful visit” , “Russia and China do not seek to create an alliance”, “China's objective position on the Ukrainian crisis.”
But the following of these “Chinese diplomas” still follows: despite all the “objectivity” of Beijing's position on the Ukrainian crisis, it is clear bias in this position in the form of sympathy for the Russian side.
Again I will use an analogy – this time a little more complicated – from the field of interpersonal relations. In the early 18th century, Mary Montague, the wife of the British diplomatic representative at the court of the Sultan of Turkey, described the then widespread language of love correspondence in these rural “villages”, in which feelings were conveyed through mentions of various flowers. , objects and plants: “There is no color, flower, weed, fruit, grass, stone, bird's feather to which a verse does not correspond, and you can quarrel, swear, send letters of passion, friendship, courtesy, or exchange messages without got their fingers dirty.
Modern diplomacy also has its own “villages”. You (you – in the sense of the supreme leader of the state) do not make state visits to a country whose activities you strongly disagree with. You don't say that “Russia contributes to global development by improving the system of global governance” if Moscow's policy towards a neighboring country causes you absolute and total rejection.
Of course, the words (even in the language of “salam”) and actions are not quite the same. China's actual political course is full of nuances. What is really going on between Moscow and Beijing is largely hidden from view.
Remember how Comrade Xi recently publicly berated Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at one of the international forums for leaking the contents of their confidential discussions to the media? Above all, Chinese diplomacy likes silence, darkness and secrecy. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. But even this surface part is quite informative. Accompanied by talk that “China and Russia are not seeking to form an alliance”, the two world powers are moving towards rapprochement.