Posted on 03/13/2023 9:06:31 AM PDT by Angelino97
President Xi Jinping wants to parlay China’s success in brokering a diplomatic deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia into a more active role in global affairs.
China should “actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system” and promote “global security initiatives,” Xi said on Monday in a speech to the legislature.
That will add “positive energy to world peace and development,” he claimed.
And in a blend of statecraft and blunt force, Xi spoke of turning the People’s Liberation Army into a “great wall of steel.”
“We should comprehensively promote the modernization of national defense and military construction, and build the People’s Army into a great wall of steel that effectively safeguards national sovereignty, security and development interests,” the Chinese leader said.
Xi’s emphasis on expansion comes as the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that he plans to visit Russia as soon as next week to meet with his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as Russia continues its more than yearlong war in neighboring Ukraine.
His trip to Moscow follows US intelligence concerns that Beijing is considering providing lethal arms to Russia.
The report said Xi also intends to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, possibly after his visit to Moscow, and reflects China’s objective to play a peacemaking role between the two countries.
Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last Friday that they had reached an agreement, negotiated during four days of secret talks in Beijing, to re-establish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies.
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All empires overextend and then collapse. Thanks, Neocons.
America First was a good policy.
Squandering our economic and military assets in Ukraine is a bad policy.
There are all kinds of consequences from a stolen election.
Yep.
W Boosh was nation-building overseas and ignoring America and Americans too.
America Last
Americans Last
under the Uniparty system
These guys are good at murdering their own people.
Leader of Men @_leader_of_men_
10h
Tbh if you support Russia and you live in America you are not a patriot. In the slightest. Rather, you’re a dumbass that has forgotten how much of a realistic threat the USSR once posed when Americans had to do duck and cover drills every single day at school. F k Russia.
https://twitter.com/_leader_of_men_/status/1635133153772961792?cxt=HHwWgIDQ8ZS8lLEtAAAA
Why do you equate America First (no foreign wars) with support for Russia?
“Iran and Saudi Arabia announced last Friday that they had reached an agreement, negotiated during four days of secret talks in Beijing”
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Americans should be VERY concerned about this agreement....but they are not.
Chinamens all over the internet demanding Nobel Peace Prize. Is reopening embassies such a tremendous development? If anything, it will just spur more terrorism and instability that will embarrass China in the long run.
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