The Daily Populous Thursday July 25th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by unn.ua and submitted by Even_Jellyfish_214

Ukraine supports China's position on Taiwan and will continue to adhere to the principle of "one China," Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the Chinese Foreign Ministry's press service reported, UNN reported.

"Kuleba said that China is a great country. Uzbekistan and China are strategic partners and important economic and trade partners. Ukraine supports China's position on the Taiwan issue and will continue to adhere to one China," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Ukrainian-Taiwanese relations are limited. Since Ukraine established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1992 as part of the "One China" policy, this excludes recognition of the Republic of China (i.e., present-day Taiwan).

Китай і Тайвань: коротка історія конфлікту "азійських тигрів" та чи матиме це вплив на Україну й світ

Rift3N on July 25th, 2024 at 12:40 UTC »

It would be newsworthy if they didn't tbh

Even the US doesn't recognize Taiwan as outright independent

chengelao on July 25th, 2024 at 12:24 UTC »

We're not in the black and white "team red vs team blue" world of the cold war any more (and even then geopolitics could be complicated).

China is generally neutral(ish) on the Russo-Ukrainian war. It does not benefit from a Russian victory, nor from a Russian defeat. China is fine to purchase energy and raw materials from Russia, while exporting machine tools, drones, and fill in the gaps in the Russian market post-sanctions. It does not, however, directly sell weapons, and technically bans sale of equipment to the Russian military, meaning any Russian military purchase of Chinese drones or black market microchips has to go through a whole a network of profiteering middlemen, jacking up the cost of war for the Russians.

China is equally willing to do the same for Ukraine of course - buy food and fuel, sell drones and parts. China had plenty good relations with Ukraine as well in the recent past, since post-Soviet Ukraine often sold China weapons, designs, and industrial assistance that the Russians tried to keep secret/didn't want to provide (China's first aircraft carrier the Liaoning, the prototype for the carrier flanker version, the Zubr class amphibious assault ships... the list goes on). It's just that Ukraine is further away from China, has a smaller budget to work with, and has more partners it can trade with, so China is trading more with the isolated Russia than with Ukraine.

Chinese "neutrality" is fairly consistent with the rest of its foreign policy of "you guys sort out your own problems, and I'll sort out mine", and considering how close Beijing is with Moscow, this is probably the best outcome Ukraine can reasonably expect from the Chinese.

In exchange, Ukraine will continue to abide by things like the One-China policy, and won't call China out publically on sensitive issues. China continues to sit this war out, and maybe at some point if Beijing gets sufficiently fed up with Russia's bungled empire-building, maybe China will even start to exert pressure on Russia to conclude the war more towards Ukraine's favour.

MizunoZui on July 25th, 2024 at 11:11 UTC »

Every country with a diplomatic relationship with China has to repeat this line in every of their joint statements. Either a more vague One China Policy (US approach) or the One China Principal. Some outlets just decide to make a headline each time.