Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LOOTS Elsabe
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian forces has led to the most aggressive financial sanctions by Western countries against another country in modern history.
Two financial sanctions stand out in particular. Firstly, the decision to block the majority of Russian banks from SWIFT, the global (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
Au Loong-yu explores China’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Xi, please ask Putin to withdraw his troops...
And honour your promise of “respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations” – a promise first made by China in the 1955 Bandung Conference, where many (…)
, by MAGNIER Mark
• US spy chief William Burns says Xi’s own intelligence community ‘doesn’t appear to have told him what was going to happen’
• US officials admit that, despite predicting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion plans, they had underestimated Ukraine’s ability to defend itself
China (…)
, by HU Wei
Hu Wei is the vice-chairman of the Public Policy Research Center of the Counselor’s Office of the State Council, the chairman of Shanghai Public Policy Research Association, the chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chahar Institute, a professor, and a doctoral supervisor. To read more by (…)
, by JI Siqi
• As the invasion continues, Beijing’s ability to distance itself from the dispute is becoming harder, potentially damaging its economic ambitions
• China could face secondary sanctions or at the very least ‘reputational costs’ due to the perception it is helping prop up the Russian economy (…)
, by CHEN Yan, SUN Jiang, WANG Lixin, XU Guoqi, ZHONG Weimin
This petition now circulating among Chinese academics on Chinese social media is being now censored by China’s Internet overseers.
The WeChat social media URL address of this petition was soon replaced by this illegal content warning [not reproduced here].
The official PRC attitude seems to (…)
, by NI Adam
Chinese Source (Xinhua): http://www.news.cn/2022-02/25/c_1128417363.htm
Russian source (TASS): https://tass.ru/politika/13859443
Introduction by Adam Ni, translations by Adam Ni (Chinese) and Anastasiia Rudkovska (Russian)
Introduction
An hour ago (evening February 25, Beijing time), (…)
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