China's secret strategy: participation in the war in Ukraine is a step towards Taiwan's annexation - The Hill

"The Communist Party seeks direct experience in the battlefield in Ukraine to inform its People's Liberation Army about future wars," said Richard Fisher from the Center for International Assessment and Strategy in Washington. For Chinese soldiers, the Ukrainian battlefield "offers the most striking and most violent evolution of the revolutionary battle between unmanned weapons and electronic struggle systems against it.

" It is also likely that Chinese officers do more than they are watching and reporting China. They can also give advice to the Russian military. In the end, China supported Russia's military efforts from the very beginning, as the publication writes. A former Western intelligence officer reported Reuters that about 200 Chinese soldiers were fighting on Russia's side in Ukraine. Two current US officials confirm that there are more than one hundred.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky named the number of more than 155. Two have already been captured. They can be exchanged for prisoners of Ukrainian defenders. In particular, during the Great War, China supported the Russian side in almost all directions.

For example, Beijing bought Russian oil, which the sanctions of the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union have been imposed, opened its financial and banking systems for Russian institutions under sanctions, provided military intelligence, diplomatic and propaganda support and sold as a dual -purpose. "It is unlikely that these soldiers would be allowed to go to Russia without the full consent of the SI regime," says Charles Burton from Sinopsis Analytical Center.

Several hundred Chinese recruitment, who left the country to fight in a foreign war, is undoubtedly what "Beijing should know. " Chinese and Russian military regularly conduct joint training in East Asia. Therefore, as the publication writes, the Pentagon should assume that these two states, together with North Korea, will fight together during the next war.

We will remind, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, on Friday, April 18 criticized the accusation of President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky of supplying the weapons of Russia. The department called these words "unfounded.