China Warns Western Geopolitical Lies & Ignorance about Russia Extend to China

In an editorial titled “Russia Snubbed from Exclusive Western Circle,” China’s official Communist Party paper Global Times editorialized that the Western disinformation about President Putin and Russia is intended as “regime change” conditioning of the population. “Beside being described by the West as a ‘dictator,'” they write, “now Putin is also said to be the real owner of illicit overseas fortunes taken care of by his friends. In Russia, Putin enjoys an 80% approval rate. But in the Western media, he is as `evil’ as former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi or Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.”

They add the obvious: “The Soviet Union collapsed a long time ago. Russia has introduced an election system from the West. But Russia’s reputation is still bad in the West. The hatred toward the Soviet Union seemed to have transferred to Russia.”

Why, they ask? “Basically, it is because Russia is still a big power. Its land crosses Europe and Asia. It inherited nuclear power from the Soviet Union and could still produce mutually assured destruction with the U.S. The military power of Russia makes the West anxious…. Since Peter the Great, Russians have been dreaming of integrating with the West. But they suffered numerous setbacks…. Russia is a painful lesson of a major power that tried to follow the West, but only woke up after gaining nothing. Big countries will certainly face geopolitical competition. And the U.S. will spontaneously try to weaken the contestants. China has become the world’ second largest economy. We cannot expect our future path to become smoother. On the contrary, the country is likely to become the focus of the Western power’s exclusive reactions.”