SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Xi’s warning against the return of the “law of the jungle” is not just about China and Russia.

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Xi’s warning against the return of the “law of the jungle” is not just about China and Russia.
It is about a world where weaker states are not supposed to lose their right to exist simply because stronger powers find them inconvenient.

This is also why China’s position on Russia is more complicated than Western headlines admit.

Beijing has not recognized Crimea or eastern Ukraine as Russian territory.
It has not endorsed annexation as a principle.

But it also refuses to join the West’s moral courtroom, where the same countries that destroyed Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza, and much of the Global South suddenly pretend international law began in 2022.

Russia’s own position can look uncomfortable, yes.
A state that has used force for political ends does not get to speak against the “law of the jungle” from a pure moral throne.

But China is not speaking from Russia’s biography.
China is speaking from its own historical instinct:

no empire should decide that smaller or weaker nations are disposable.
no unilateral bloc should rewrite global rules as private property.
no civilization should accept a world where power alone becomes law.

That is the real message.

Not “Russia is innocent.”
Not “the West is moral.”

But that the jungle cannot be allowed to call itself order.

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President's Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on strategic coordination, with President Xi warning of a return to the ‘law of the jungle’ and urged China and Russia to oppose unilateral actions and promote fair global governance system https://reut.rs/4eY95qd