Ambassador Lu Shaye said Crimea was historically part of Russia and had been offered to Ukraine by former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev [File: Chris Wattie/Reuters]
Reuters: Paris, Kyiv, Baltic States Dismayed After China Envoy Questions Ukraine Sovereignty
PARIS (Reuters) -France, Ukraine and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania expressed dismay after China's ambassador in Paris questioned the sovereignty of former Soviet countries like Ukraine.
Asked about his position on whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or not, Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye said in an interview aired on French television on Friday that historically it was part of Russia and had been offered to Ukraine by former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
"These ex-USSR countries don't have actual status in international law because there is no international agreement to materialize their sovereign status," Shaye added.
France responded on Sunday by stating its "full solidarity" with all the allied countries affected, which it said had acquired their independence "after decades of oppression".
"On Ukraine specifically, it was internationally recognized within borders including Crimea in 1991 by the entire international community, including China," a foreign ministry spokesperson said.
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WNU Editor: This is why he made his remarks .... China’s questioning sovereignty of post-Soviet states is tit-for-tat over Taiwan (SCMP).
China's Ambassador To France Questions Ex-Soviet States Sovereignty
Chinese Envoy Questions Sovereignty Of Post-Soviet States -- AFP
Anger in Europe After Chinese Diplomat Says Ex-Soviet States Not Sovereign -- Bloomberg
Chinese ambassador under fire in Europe after Taiwan, post-Soviet sovereignty remarks -- Taiwan News
Furore erupts as Chinese envoy questions post-Soviet states’ sovereignty -- SCMP
Baltic states condemn China envoy’s remarks over sovereignty of ex-Soviet nations -- The Guardian
Baltics condemn China envoy's stance on ex-Soviet nations -- AP
Ukraine slams China envoy’s ‘absurd’ remarks on ex-Soviet nations -- Al Jazeera
11 comments:
He is soooooo cute!
I bet he still has baby dimples. when he smiles.
i would like to see one China, too. I would like to see one world government.
But the devil is in the details. It
It is not a matter of having a world government, but what the operating rules for it will be. that matters.
Cutesy-pie should read his Chinese history. The first Chinese empire immediately fell apart. One of the former emperor's closest advisors and one that his heir did not like tried running away. He did not have his papers and was soon caught and executed. this advisor had set up the strict travel control like we say n the USSR and the CCP.
Amazing how cutesy wants another authoritarian empire. By my count a well run empire or system lasts about 200 years. the Han did not last 400 h=years. there was the Early and Later Han. Each about 200 years. The USSR lasted about 70 and that was through sheer luck. It was poorly ran and Putin wants to recreate ... poorly ran.
I have said it before and I will say it again. you have to let some fragmentation before things reconglomerate for good.. People have to believe in it, vote for and be treated.
It cannot be like the EU that kept pushing votes in the Netherlands and elsewhere year after year. They also bent financial rules to let in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Subsequently there was a crisis. Also these EU bureaucrats have set themselves up as an aristocracy in all but name. They do not use the worn out Divine will, but it is the almost the same schtick. Further they have too many layers of government(4). They need 3 layers not four.
Too many layers of government leads to increased corruption.
If Luhansk and Donbass can’t vote to join Russia, then why should we recognize Taiwans vote to separate from China? Would a lefty loony like to elaborate on that hypocrisy?
Could a city in Texas vote to rejoin Mexico? Sure they could vote. And then what?
So you agree then that Taiwan is a Chinese province illegally occupied by separatists. Glad we made that crystal clear.
Not sure who "you" refers to.What policy under Trump and/or Biden do we and did we have toward Taiwan?
On the surface it was a one China policy, but under Biden it came out into the open that our true feelings are for an independent Taiwan. Like I said, if we openly support an independent Taiwan, then we should support the democratic vote and will of the regions in Ukraine that no longer want to be a part of that country. Otherwise it’s just hypocrisy, and that’s the thing I’m getting tired of when it comes to the west.
A huge number of people in the Southwest US speak Spanish. Should they then vote to have their states become a part of Mexico?
If Biden banned them from practicing their religion and ordered them to not speak Spanish in public places, then yes. That’s what Zelensky was doing to the ethnic Russians in Ukraine and probably worse things not reported by western media.
Seen a lot of northern and central European-American blondes with hyphenated names with one of the two names being Hispanic. Getting well mixed there.
the only reason those in the southwest would vote to be Nexican is if the Obama/Niden crew keep governing like crap for another 6 years.
China is not really one country either, historically it is many smaller sovereign states.
You could make a case about China being made up of smaller states. You could argue that Tibet, Xinjiang and Manchuria should be spun off,
Xinjiang: The problem here is that many of the previous inhabitants were massacred and the Chinese empire invited the Uighurs to repopulate. At least half of Xinjiang is this way. So is it really Uighur? the other problem is that half of Xinjiang is ethnic Han. where are you going to put them? Many of them are second or third generation. If you can expel the chinse from Xinjiang, then you can expel the Russians from Kaliningrad.
Manchuria: the last Chinese dynasty was Manchurian. It is two faced to be all for lording it over the Han, but when they return the favor, you are not game. The Chinese had conquered part of Manchuria going back 2 thousand years.
the are problems with the Kingdom Dali as well.
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