Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun: Any Action by the Security Council Should Be Truly Conducive to Defusing the Ukraine Crisis

Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun: Any Action by the Security Council Should Be Truly Conducive to Defusing the Ukraine Crisis 2022-02-25

On February 25, the Security Council held a meeting to vote on the draft resolution on the current situation in Ukraine sponsored by countries including the United States. Ambassador Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, attended the meeting, abstained in the voting, and explained China’s position on the decision.

Ambassador Zhang said that China is deeply concerned about the latest developments of the situation in Ukraine. Currently, it has come to the point which we do not want to see. China always forms its own position according to the merits of the matter at hand. We believe that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states should be respected, and that the purposes and principles of the UN Charter should be jointly upheld. We have always called on all parties to seek reasonable solutions to address each other’s concerns through peaceful means on the basis of equality and mutual respect. We welcome and encourage all efforts for a diplomatic solution, and support the Russian Federation and Ukraine in resolving the issue through negotiations.

Ambassador Zhang pointed out that in the past week, the Security Council has held two emergency meetings, and parties have fully elaborated on their positions and concerns on the current situation. At present, faced with the very complex and sensitive situation, the Security Council should make a necessary response. At the same time, such a response should also be extremely cautious. Any action should be truly conducive to defusing the crisis, rather than adding fuel to fire. If not properly handled, or blindly exerting pressure and imposing sanctions, it may only lead to more casualties, more property loss, more complicated and chaotic situations, and more difficulties in bridging differences. It may completely shut the door to a peaceful solution, and eventually it is the vast number of innocent people that will be the victims. We must draw profound lessons from the extremely painful experience in the past. For this reason, China abstained in the voting just now.

Ambassador Zhang stressed that the issue of Ukraine is not something that only emerged today; nor did the current situation occur suddenly overnight. It is a result of the interplay of various factors over a long period of time.

China advocates the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security. We believe that one country’s security cannot be at the expense of the security of others, and that regional security should not rely on muscling up or even expanding military blocs. The legitimate security concerns of all countries should be respected. Against the backdrop of five successive rounds of NATO’s eastward expansion, Russia’s legitimate security aspirations should be given attention to and properly addressed.

Ambassador Zhang said that Ukraine should become a bridge between the East and the West, not an outpost for confrontation between major powers. We strongly call on all parties concerned to exercise maximum restraint, ease tensions, and avoid civilian casualties. The final settlement of the Ukraine crisis still requires abandoning the Cold War mentality, giving full attention and respect to the legitimate security concerns of all countries, and conducting negotiations to build a balanced, effective and sustainable European security mechanism. We call on all parties to immediately come back to the track of diplomatic negotiations and political settlement, show sincerity and goodwill, make a political decision and engage in dialogue and consultation for a comprehensive settlement of the Ukraine issue.

The Security Council has held multiple emergency meetings since the recent escalation of the Ukraine situation. In the voting this time, the US and other members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution while Russia vetoed it. China, India and the United Arab Emirates abstained in the voting. The draft resolution was not adopted.

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The public is led to believe that the China Initiative Program is officially shut down. That, of course, in the wrong reading and conclusion.

Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: Your close reading, exegesis, of the DOJ announcement, is right on!. The public is led to believe that the China Initiative Program is officially shut down. That, of course, in the wrong reading and conclusion. 加州大學伯克利分校的王靈智教授：您對 DOJ 公告的仔細閱讀和解釋是正確的！ 公眾被認為是“中國倡議計劃”正式關閉。 當然，這是錯誤的閱讀和結論.

Chinese has a very apt, succinct, folksy characterization of what the DOJ has done: huantang bu huanyao (换汤不换药), literally, the same medicine with a different name, meaning, a change of form without a change in substance.

DOJ did not apologize for what it has done to all Chinese and Chinese American scientists and engineers.

I also have not heard anything about what the NIH memo sent to all 12,000 NIH-funded research projects across the U.S. by Dr. Francis Collins last year, urging them to keep a watchful eye on their Chinese project participants. This memo racially profiled all Chinese researchers as suspects and effectively turned all research institutions into spying and law enforcement agencies of the government. How chilling and unnerving!

Saturday March 5 2022 1:00-5:00pm – CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 232 1ST STREET, MARYSVILLE, CA 94611

Saturday March 5 2022 1:00-5:00pm – CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 232 1ST STREET, MARYSVILLE, CA 94611

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1:30 PM–THE CHINESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NORTHERN
CALIFORNIA–PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE–
BRIAN TOM, MUSEUM DIRECTOR

2:00 PM–CHINESE TONGS–QUESTIONS YOU ARE AFRAID TO ASK–
DAVID Y. LEI, SENIOR ADVISOR, CHINESE AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION

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The US Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy does not allowed foreign force at its borders, why US so naïve felt Russia will allow NATO forces at its borders

Video: PROFESSOR JOHN MEARSHEIMER: THE SITUATION IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE | KING’S POLITICS The Monroe Doctrine was a US foreign policy does not allowed foreign force at its borders, why US so naïve felt Russia will allow NATO forces at its borders 門羅主義是美國的一項外交政策，不允許外國軍隊進入其邊界，為什麼美國如此天真地認為俄羅斯將允許北約部隊進入其邊界

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The Monroe Doctrine position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S. The doctrine was central to U.S. foreign policy for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Professor John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He has published six immensely influential books on international relations theory. In 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”

LEE Siu Hin to talk about his documentary on Xinjiang and his book Capitalism on a Ventilator

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Video: Hua Chunying talks about the Russian-Ukrainian crisis

Video: Hua Chunying talks about the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, first scolded foreign media for “preconceptions” and then scolded the US as “unqualified” to teach China how to do it 女戰狼發威! 華春瑩談俄烏危機 先嗆外媒”先入為主” 後嗆美國”沒資格”教中方怎麼做

Bloomberg: Can you say then China considers Russia’s action an invasion? Is it an invasion? Is it a violation of the UN Charter?

Hua Chunying: We have stated China’s principled position on the Ukraine issue. There is a complex historical background and context on this issue. The current situation is the result of the interplay of various factors.

We noted that today Russia announced its launch of a special military operation in eastern Ukraine. Russia’s defense ministry said that its armed forces will not conduct missile, air or artillery strikes on cities. China is closely monitoring the latest developments and calls on all sides to exercise restraint and prevent the situation from getting out of control.

I would like to stress once again China’s consistent position. We should pursue common, cooperative and sustainable security for all countries. The legitimate security concerns of all sides should be respected and resolved. We hope all sides will keep the door to peace open and continue to work for deescalation through dialogue, consultation and negotiation and prevent further escalation.

CCTV: Speaking on the Ukraine issue, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that China should respect the principle of state sovereignty and territorial integrity and that China has an obligation to urge Russia to “back down”. He also said the growing relationship between China and Russia is concerning. The two sides’ joint statement shows that China is trying to use its influence on Russia to create a world order both want. Do you have any comment?

Hua Chunying: I noted the remarks by the US State Department spokesperson.

First, when it comes to respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity, I’m afraid the US is in no position to tell China off. The Chinese people have deep understanding and strong feelings about state sovereignty and territorial integrity through first-hand experience. Recent history saw China invaded by the Eight-Power Allied Forces and other colonialist powers, which left behind indelible poignant memories of national humiliation. Just a little more than 20 years ago, the Chinese embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was hit by NATO bombing, which killed three Chinese journalists and injured many more. NATO still owes the Chinese people a debt of blood. Even today, China still faces a realistic threat from the US flanked by its several allies as they wantonly and grossly meddle in China’s domestic affairs and undermine China’s sovereignty and security on issues including Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan. China remains the only permanent member of the Security Council that has yet to realize complete national reunification. It is because of all these that China consistently and firmly uphold the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and basic norms governing international relations, firmly safeguard its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and firmly defend international equity and justice.

If we look at the US, during its nearly 250 years of history, there were only 20 years when it was not conducting military operations overseas. The pretexts it used can be democracy or human rights or simply a test tube of laundry powder or even fake news. Such a country’s understanding of respect for state sovereignty and territorial integrity is definitely different from ours. The international community can see this very clearly.

The US side suggests that Russia acted with complicit support from China. I don’t believe Russia would be too pleased to hear that. Russia is a permanent member of the UN Security Council and an independent major power. It is fully capable of formulating and implementing its diplomatic strategy independently based on its judgement and national interests.

I must also stress that China-Russia relations are based on the foundation of non-alliance, non-confrontation and non-targeting of any third party. This differs fundamentally and essentially from the practice of the US, which is, ganging up to form small cliques and pursuing bloc politics to create confrontation and division based on ideology. China has no interest in the friend-or-foe dichotomous Cold War thinking and the patchwork of so-called allies and small cliques and has no intention to follow such a path.

As to the China-Russia joint statement, I suggest the US side give it some further study. China and Russia aim to strengthen strategic communication and coordination, firmly uphold the international system with the UN’s central coordinating role in international affairs, and firmly safeguard the international order based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law. This shows exactly that China and Russia are acting responsibly and positively maintaining international strategic security and stability.


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