Russia Pits Political China Against Technocratic China
The Russian invasion has thrown a wedge into a fierce and growing divide within the Chinese polity.
Chinese Vice Premier and top economic advisor to President Xi Jinping, Liu He, at the World Economic Forum in 2018. Credit: Ciaran McCrickard/World Economic Forum via Flickr
In the month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Beijing’s foreign policy messages have been highly conflicted, as it attempts to maintain high-level support for Moscow while distancing China from the humanitarian costs and economic collateral damage of the conflict. Those mixed messages reflect not only the difficulty of reacting to Russian military setbacks on the ground, but a real split within China’s governing system: namely, between Political China and Technocratic China.
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