Zhao Huasheng (赵华胜) has an article in The Paper that expresses on the issue of the Russia-Ukraine conflict whence there is not only no unified moral judgment, but also sharp opposition and completely different understandings of justice and morality. However, there is no doubt that China’s diplomacy should have valuable principles and respect for the international law.
The problem is that it should be expressed in the most appropriate way. Policy and strategy are an integral whole. Correct policies without appropriate strategies will not only fail to achieve the expected results, but may even be counterproductive.
Thus, it is obviously undesirable to damage or even destroy the entire relationship between countries, and value pursuit.
Idealism is certainly needed, but after all, the country lives in a realist world, and state relations and national interests have broader and more lasting content.
Zhao Huasheng is the director of the Russian and Central Asian Studies Center of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University and the director of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Research Center; his biodata and published works are here.
The Chinese Text is available HERE where any machine-translated English-talking or decoding document facility can be used to preview the article.