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Kyiv has evidence that China has provided Russia with satellite data which has been used to target missile strikes on Ukraine, including strikes on facilities used by foreign companies, a member of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service (SZRU) said on Oct. 4.

SZRU employee Oleh Alexandrov told Ukrinform that there is evidence of “high-level cooperation between Russia and China in conducting satellite reconnaissance of Ukraine’s territory.”

According to Alexandrov, the goal of reconnaissance is to identify strategic targets for attacks.

“At the same time, as we have seen in recent months, these targets may belong to foreign investors,” he added.

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China officially claims neutrality in Russia’s war against Ukraine, but has indirectly supported Moscow’s war through continued trade and by providing dual-use goods to Russia.

During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s last visit to China, where he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the two countries signed more than 20 cooperation deals in energy, technology, and other sectors, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Putin lauded the relationship between the two countries, saying they have reached an “unprecedented level.”

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    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine …

    This will escalate until the West fights the East in Ukraine, 1984 style.

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      If China insists on backing a nation that waged a war of aggression and hence wants to escalate it into something bigger, yes.

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        Don’t worry. Everybody wants that war like that. It’s 1913 all over again.

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          There’s a difference between supporting the side that invaded and supporting the side that defends against the occupying forces.

          Or are you saying the Soviets also “wanted” the war against Nazi Germany?

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            I am saying that all parties were motivated for WW1 while none should have been.

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                Do we have three blocks with two hoping that the other two take each other out while the third plans to conquer everything?

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                  We have an increasingly aggressive country in Europe with a strong inferiority complex that tries to enlarge its territory by force under the ‘pretext’ of getting people back into the Reich. And we have a lot of people who deceive themselves that this aggressive country could be addressed with appeasement, only encouraging this aggression even more, leading to a large conflict. Sounds a lot like 1938 to me.

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    China officially claims neutrality in Russia’s war against Ukraine, but has indirectly supported Moscow’s war through continued trade and by providing dual-use goods to Russia.

    Nervous Switzerland noises…“This…this does not count as being neutral 😯👉👈?”

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    China is uncomfortable being as complicit in genocide as America, so they’re going to stick to a sensible Britain’s worth of complicity instead.