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Originally Posted by Itse
- Again, China is not sanctioning Russia. They can sell weapons if they want. The arms trade market has warmed up a lot, and China wants a piece. Additionally, if you look at it from China's perspective how is the US donating weapons to Ukraine and selling them to everyone not prolonging the war and escalating tension, yet China selling weapons IS prolonging the war?
If China starts donating weapons to Russia (or selling them on the cheap), that would be a story, but currently almost all of what you're listing is just China pretty much operating on a "business as usual" basis.
That treaty of friendship... That I can't really comment on, I don't know what it actually means in practice, and does look bad.
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Selling weapons to the aggressor party while simultaneously claiming be a neutral third party trying to mediate peace directly undermines the position of "neutral third party" and creates a conflict of interest situation where that supposed "neutral" party will actively profit from a prolonged conflict, and therefore no longer be neutral. China actively undermines their own publicly stated position, but that is "business as usual" for China. They are neither neutral nor are they incentivized to let the conflict end sooner despite what they say. Its two faced at best. Donating weapons to Russia would be even worse tho.
The US is not neutral in this conflict. They never claimed to be. It may be prolonging the war, but you also forget the US is abiding by exactly what it promised to do in the Budapest Memorandum as a condition for Ukraine giving up it's nukes. Russia broke that treaty by invading.