China: Facts, Events, Opinions (13/2023/265)

chiny24.com 2 years ago

Plan, not plan

On the anniversary of Russia's attack on Ukraine, on 24 February 2023, the Chinese Ministry of abroad Affairs published a paper entitled "China's state of affairs on the political solution to the Ukrainian crisis" (chin. 关于政治解决乌克兰危机的中国立场).¹

The 12 points show China's view of what conditions must be taken into account in order to end the war in Ukraine. And these terms are:

Respect for the sovereignty of all countries. Strict compliance with global law and the United Nations Charter, without double standards. The sovereignty, independency and territorial integrity of all countries should be effectively guaranteed.
Abandoning the Cold War Mentality (retory). The safety of 1 country cannot be ensured at the expense of the safety of another countries, regional safety cannot be guaranteed by strengthening or expanding military blocks.
Suspension of arms and cessation of armed action. There are no winners in wars. All parties should keep rationality and restraint, do not put oil on the fire, do not accentuate differences, avoid further deterioration or even lose control of the crisis. Support both sides to resume direct dialog as shortly as possible in order to gradually accomplish a comprehensive ceasefire.
Initiating peace talks. dialog and negotiations are the only real way to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. All efforts should be encouraged (the parties) to guarantee a peaceful solution. The global community should focus on convincing parties to make peace. China is ready to proceed to play a constructive function in this area.
Addressing the humanitarian crisis. Any initiatives that aid alleviate the humanitarian crisis should be encouraged. Humanitarian action must respect the principles of neutrality and impartiality and prevent them from politicising. Humanitarian aid should be increased, rapid, secure, unrestricted access to this assistance.
Ensure civilian protection and war prisoners. The parties to the conflict should strictly respect global humanitarian law, refrain from attacks on civilians and civilian facilities, defend women and children and another victims of the conflict, and respect the fundamental rights of prisoners of war. China supports the exchange of POWs between Russia and Ukraine.
Maintain the safety of atomic power plants. China calls on all parties to comply with global law, including the atomic safety Convention.
Reducing strategical risk. atomic weapons cannot be utilized and atomic warfare cannot be conducted. Even the danger of utilizing it should be rejected. The mediate State powerfully opposes the improvement and usage of chemical and biological weapons by any country and under any circumstances.
Support for grain exports. All parties should implement a grain transport agreement from the Black Sea region and support the United Nations in playing a key function in this area. The Chinese initiative on global cooperation on food safety is simply a viable solution to the global food crisis.
End of unilateral sanctions. Sanctions and increased force do not only solve problems – they make fresh problems. Any unilateral sanctions not authorized by the UN safety Council should be opposed.
Maintain unchangeable production and supply chains. All countries in the planet should be able to defender the existing global economical strategy and to argue the politicisation, instrumentalisation and reinforcement of the system. The countries of the planet should jointly mitigate the side effects of the crisis (Ukrainian) and prevent global cooperation in the fields of energy, finance, food and transport.
Promoting postwar reconstruction. The global community should take action to support post-war reconstruction of conflict areas. China is ready to aid and play a constructive function in this area.

So much for this document, which is barely called a "peace plan". However, as you can see in the media, it worked. The Chinese paper (which you can see if you read it) is very general, without circumstantial indication of the implementation of any subsequent steps, determining who and how to follow them.

This is besides an excellent example of the specificity of Chinese diplomacy: no guilty persons or victims are identified here, we are faced with balancing in a conflict situation, without condemning or speaking on either side. We want to start talking, we want to mediate? We cannot be considered as either organization to the other party. Psychology is said to be a Western achievement. But in Poland there is inactive a phenomenon from the borderline of the scamming...

The paper presented by the Chinese Ministry of abroad Affairs is simply a collection of opinions that representatives of the GOC have been communicating to the planet for months. It's nothing new.²

The paper met mixed reactions.

- Putin and Lukashenko support his thesis (which should make you think).
- Positive elements, despite reservations, besides sees in him president W. Zelenski ) which should make you think).
- President Andrzej Duda considers the Chinese initiative to be in the right direction.
- Like president Macron or Prime Minister Orban.
- President Biden, NATO Secretary General, Chancellor Scholz, considers China's position to be of no peculiar interest. From a large cloud a small rain.

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Source:

¹https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/zyxw/202302/t20230224_11030707.shtml

²https://www.chinanews.com/gn/2023/02-26/9961186.shtml

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1758847259542448867&wfr=spider&for=pc

Against everything

For any time now, and especially since Russia's attack on Ukraine, there have been many articles and statements from politicians about the request to reduce Germany's dependence not only on Russia, but besides on China.

Last year trade between Germany and China reached a evidence level of EUR 297.9 billion (about PLN 1.4 trillion), which means an increase of 21% in relation to the year/year.¹

China is Germany's largest trading partner. 7 years in a row. The United States and the Netherlands are ahead of this.

In 2022 German exports to China amounted to EUR 106.8 billion (about PLN 503.5 billion) – growth by 3.1% y/y

In the same period China sold to Germany goods worth EUR 191.1 billion (about PLN 901 billion), which gives an increase of 33.6% y/y.

Germany thus recorded a evidence negative trade balance of EUR 84.3 billion (approximately PLN 397.5 billion).

According to German companies, it will be hard to reverse this trend, given at least the increase in energy costs in Europe. An additional problem is the perceived recession, which does not favour investment. Meanwhile, China is attractive not only as a origin of highly advanced goods, but besides as a place of production, with complementary supply chains, independent of external factors. It is besides easier to scope the Asian markets from China with the goods produced there, especially the expanding economies of ASEAN. German companies are so investing more and more in China. BASF alone invested about $10 billion in China last year in creating a plastic production center for the markets of China and ASEAN countries.

Source:

¹https://www.163.com/dy/article/HTVG1VR00531EI67.html

https://www.sohu.com/a/640098735_99958393

Likewise...

... as with Germany, China besides recorded evidence results in abroad trade in 2022 in relations with the United States.

With this may be the difference that the US is China's first and not 3rd trading partner (as a single country, not a relation like ASEAN, RCEPT or the EU).

In 2022, full trade between the US and China amounted to USD 690.6 billion (about PLN 3.07 trillion) – an increase of 2.5% y/y.¹

A evidence was broken 4 years ago.

US exports to China amounted to US$153.8 billion (about PLN684.37 billion) – an increase of 1.6% y/y.

The USA exported mainly agricultural products – soya beans and cereals and pharmaceutical products.

Imports from China during this period amounted to USD 536.8 billion (about PLN 2.8 trillion). Chinese exports to the USA mainly included highly processed goods, electronics and computers, plastics, organic chemistry, household appliances, toys and clothing.

He deepened his negative trade balance (I will remind you due to the fact that I like – Trump's trade war continues). It reached a evidence sum of $383 billion (about PLN 1.7 trillion).

Source:

¹https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1758718793088762440&wfr=spider&for=pc

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1757956034817668857&wfr=spider&for=pc

Weak and weak

Data China abroad Exchange Trading Center (chin. 中国外汇交易中心) indicates that Chinese yuan (RMB) lost to US dollar 2.6% between the beginning and the end of February.¹

01.02.2023 average rate was USD 1 = 6,7398 RMB, and
28.02.2023 average rate was 1 USD = 6,9362 RMB.

Over a period of 12 months, RMB weakened in relation to the US by 9.71%. Export opportunities are increasing.

Source:

¹http://www.ce.cn/xwzx/gnsz/gdxw/202302/26/t20230226_38413707.shtml http://bj.bjd.com.cn/5b165687a01550e5ddc0e6a/contentShare/5b16573ae4b02a9fe2d558fa/AP63fdd9dce4b03a6b6edcb235.html

New on the stock market

The HongKong Stock Exchange (chin. 香港联交所) board announced its intention to let the listing on the main marketplace of unprofitable, non-profit technology companies.¹ This is due to happen at the beginning of March. The aim is to revive the transaction and attract local capital.

Source:

¹https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22085636

Third airport

In November this year the construction of NanTong Airport (chin. 南通) in Jiangsu state (chin. 江苏) will begin. It will be built by ShangHai Airport Group TongChang Construction Management Co., Ltd. (chin. 上海机场集团通场建设管理有限公司). In this project, 51% of the shares are held by ShangHai Airport (Group) Co., Ltd. (chin. 上海机场集团有限公司), and 49% by NanTong Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd. (chin. 南通城市建设集团有限公司)¹ The peculiar intent company will besides manage the built airport. This, in turn, is to be commissioned in 2026. It will service as the third, alternate airport for Shanghai about 100 km away²

Source:

¹http://news.cyol.com/gb/articles/2023-02/15/content_77aPnYie3M.html

²Currently Shanghai has 2 global airports: HongQiao global Airport (chin. 虹桥国际机场) and PuDong global Airport (chin. 浦东国际机场). Both are managed by ShangHai Airport (Group) Co., Ltd. (chin. 上海机场集团有限公司). In 2019, both airports served 121.76 million passengers.

By Margin/Different sentence

Mr. Olaf Szewczyk in an article dated 14.02. "Nothing new, or spy balloon war" assumes that "China inactive does not have a stealth spy aircraft comparable to American constructions".¹

It is adequate to scope not only to the Chinese search engine Baidu (chin. 百度), but to specified as Bing Microsoft, or celebrated Google, to see that Mr. Red writes nonsense.

China in 2004 praised having the first AWACS (Airborne Early informing and Control System) aircraft invisible to radars, which was inducted into service.

The PRC presently has 5 different types of machinery (KJ-600, KJ-900, KJ-200, KJ-500, KJ-2000).

Since 2009, the Chinese military aviation equipment includes stealth J-20, J-31 fighters.²

The characteristics of undetectability for radars are distinguished by the latest constructions introduced to service like the H-20 bomber and GJ-11 drone.

The editor is advised to read the attached links. But will that convince him that he is wrong? I don't think so. It's known that no 1 can convince us that white is white...