Well is Putin brickin it? Parading solidarity with states like China and India seems to be an empty gesture where no real support or loyalty is forthcoming. This is Putin brickin it in desperation. China would never support Russia if it meant trade links with the West would be at risk.
China wouldn’t support Putin in any conflict with the West
China will not support Russia in any conflict with the West. If Putin believes that he is deluded. This Brics conglomeration is Putin desperately attempting to show that he has friends but these friends are certainly not those that would stand by him in a conflict with the West.
China relies heavily on commerce with the West. This allows the Politburo in China and the Party to survive. The citizens of China will mostly stand by and support the Ruling Party in China as long as they are profiting from it. China’s ruling party knows this and work around this. The biggest threat to China’s Ruling Party is recession and breakdown in their economy.
We saw how dissidents against China’s Ruling Party lives on a knife-edge. We witnessed this during the Covid Pandemic and how it was managed by China’s Ruling Party. We witnessed just how close they came to loosing the control that they exert over their people. We began to see a rise in dissidence and Public unrest on a large scale that must have been frightening for their leaders who eventually gave in to the demands of the people for a change in policy regarding isolation. This was a lesson to the Ruling Party in China. It is a lesson that the West can learn from as it fgives us insight into what the greatest fears of the Ruling Party in China are: and that is loosing power.
This could easily happen on a much larger scale if China’s trade with the West were to result in an economic collapse. The Ruling Party in China fear this more than anything else and this would stop them offering unconditional support to Putin which might offend the West and threaten trade. China has built it’s economy on effective trade relationships with the West and it is very unlikely that it would allign itself with Putin against the West no matter how desperate Putin is for that kind of arrangement. China and it’s Ruling Party will always put itself first.