On the occasion of the second anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia actually issued a "warning of severing diplomatic relations" to the United States, and China's attitude on this matter is very clear, so what happened between the United States and Russia?Which side will China support?
On the 22nd local time, Russian Deputy Minister Sergei Ryabkov made it clear that "if the United States confiscates Russian assets frozen on the grounds of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, then Russia may sever diplomatic relations with the United States."
It has been more than a year since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and this war has long since escalated from the conflict between the two countries to the level of a contest between Russia and the entire United States and the West. The United States never expected that the United States and the West would continue to supply weapons to Ukraine and launch comprehensive economic sanctions against Russia, but they could not defeat Russia and make Russia more and more courageous. Now that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Red Sea crisis have broken out one after another, Biden wants to tear down the east wall and make up for the west wall, but Zelensky immediately got on the line with the former Trump of the United States, and the Republican Party also forced the Democratic Party to treat Ukraine and Israel equally, so Biden had to fight on two fronts.
With the help of his influence in "OPEC+", and also the contradictions between Middle Eastern countries and the United States and Israel, Putin took advantage of the opportunity of the sixth war in the Middle East to explode and returned to the world stage as a leader. Suddenly, the anti-Russian strategy and Middle East strategy of the United States are facing the danger of a complete collapse, and the desperate Biden has come up with a peerless trick - "confiscation" of Russia's overseas assets.
According to the New York Times, in recent weeks, U.S. Treasury secretaries, diplomats and lawyers have been engaged in a heated war of words over whether to impose such unprecedented "punitive" measures on Russia. After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the European Union and the G7 immediately froze the foreign exchange reserves worth 300 billion euros of the Russian central bank, accounting for about half of Russia's entire foreign exchange reserves. This also laid the foundation for today's woes.
The United States has many precedents of freezing and misappropriating foreign exchange reserves of other countries, and half of the $7 billion reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan were retained by the United States without authorization to set up a program to assist the families of 9/11 victims. After years of war, Afghanistan is devastated, almost half of the country is refugees, the rest is in a serious food crisis, they are the victims of US intervention in the Middle East, and they are also the owners of Afghanistan's central bank reserves, they have nothing to do with 9/11, but their hard-earned money has been withheld by the United States for any reason.
Now, the United States wants to copy the same way it dealt with Afghanistan to Russia, but this money may be used for direct military assistance in addition to Ukraine's post-war reconstruction and economic support. Because there are still many unreasonable and illegal aspects in terms of operation and legal procedures, although Biden is trying to put pressure on the G7, this matter is still difficult to do, and the majority of countries currently have a negative attitude towards this matter.
So far from the Russian-Ukrainian war, the United States and Russia have not torn their faces on the bright side, but if these 300 billion overseas assets are emptied, then the real US-Russia war may be coming. Ryabkov stressed that there is a "boundary" between the United States and Russia, and once the line is crossed, it is no longer possible to maintain US-Russian relations, and these 300 billion overseas assets are one of the boundaries.
As early as when the assets of the Afghan central bank were frozen and misappropriated, China condemned the barbaric acts of the United States on many occasions, called on the United States to immediately and unconditionally return the assets of the Afghan people in full, and compensated and apologized to the Afghan people who lost their lives and are still struggling to survive.
The United States does not have the right to arbitrarily dispose of the overseas assets of other countries through domestic law, which is not only illegal, but also extremely unethical. This is true for poor Afghanistan and for Russia, a big country; Zorro, who thinks of himself as "robbing the rich and helping the poor" and "doing the right thing for heaven," is actually nothing more than a brazen person who deceives the world and steals his name; China disdains to be with the United States, and the entire Chinese people spit on this heinous behavior of the United States.
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