Recently, a Chinese Internet user published a post on Zhihu, an online discussion community, which was a response to a question in March 2021 titled “What do you think of the Russian Foreign Minister’s claim that Sino-Russian relations are at the best level in history?” “, which listed various disrespectful and unfriendly actions of Russia towards China in recent years, including insulting actions, which aroused strong repercussions from Chinese netizens, and some former pro-Russian factions also wavered. Here’s a translation of the original post and two other popular answers:
Answer ONE, posted on 2022-06-20
Only list facts, no comments.
They are all things that have happened in recent years, some of them just recently:
Russia is a world-renowned country with oil resources, and there is no shortage of oil, but it even steals oil from the South China Sea with Vietnam. On China’s Sina Weibo, it publicizes its appropriation of China’s Heisenwei and renamed it “Conquer the East”, showing off the national shame of China on Chinese social platforms.
During the Sino-Indian conflict, it sold weapons to India.
In the Russian-Ukrainian war, although Russia needs help from China, it still conducts military exercises with Vietnam and celebrates the anniversary of the Aigun Treaty with a high profile.
To be honest, in my real life, for example, between colleagues and friends, even if there is a conflict between the two sides, it is difficult to see so little bit of basic respect, specifically picking on your pain points, going to your door and bullying directly in the face, and more. So don’t call it friendly.
In recent years, Russia has disrespected and subordinated China in various ways (incomplete statistics)
On February 15, 2009, the Chinese cargo ship Nova was sunk by Russian naval artillery, killing eight sailors on board. The Russian side said that the fault lies with the new star freighter. The Chinese side said it could not understand or accept it.
On July 17, 2012, a fishing boat flying the Chinese flag was found by the Russian patrol boat “Dzerzhinsky”, and then the Russian border patrol boat shelled the fishing boat. Finally, the Russian side arrested 17 fishermen and another fisherman missed in the water. The Russian side believes that the actions of the border guards are justified, and this is the fault of the fishermen.
On November 4, 2016, Natalia Poklonskaya (then a Russian MP), known as the “beautiful prosecutor of Crimea”, made insulting remarks to China. She had insisted on joining Russia during the Crimea crisis.
In the first half of 2018, Russia sold a large number of arms to Vietnam, including the “Cheetah” class frigates. At that time, the Sino-Vietnamese Sea issue was intensifying.
On May 18, 2018, the Vietnam branch of Rosneft considered the South China Sea as Vietnam’s territorial waters and entered the South China Sea for oil exploration.
During the Sino-Indian border conflict in 2020, Russia sold 33 new fighter jets to India and delivered S-400 long-range air defense missiles ahead of schedule.
Answer TWO, edited on 2021-04-06
Let me answer as a Russian speaker. Since the beginning of the pandemic last year, Russia was the first to ban Chinese students from entering the country, but the delay in taking measures against students from Japan, South Korea and European countries has shattered any illusions I had about Russia.
A few days ago, the Russian government released:
“Foreign students from countries with well-controlled outbreaks are allowed to return to Russia for full-time study.”
These include Korea, Japan, and even India, which we complain about every day, but not China.
Answer THREE, edited on 2022-03-26
From the past, look at the present.
On April 6, 1993, an MD-11 aircraft of China Eastern Airlines performed flight MU583 from Shanghai to Los Angeles. When flying over the Pacific Ocean, the leading edge slats were suddenly extended due to the pilot’s misoperation, and the aircraft rolled rapidly. Dropped several times and dropped 5,000 feet in altitude.
The situation was critical, and the captain contacted the nearest Russians, asking if they could land at their air base, but the Russians did not agree.
It wants Chinese airliners to seek help from the United States.
The captain quickly contacted the air traffic control department, and the air traffic control department immediately activated the corresponding channels to contact the United States.
After consideration, the United States finally approved the landing of Flight 583 at Shemia Air Force Base in the Aleutian Islands.
This is the first time a civilian airliner has been allowed to land on a U.S. Air Force base.
The captain informed the passengers that the plane was about to make an emergency landing at Shermea US Air Force Base in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
They accepted our emergency landing request purely out of humanitarian considerations!
However, the island is too small, the airport does not have the conditions for landing large civil airliners, the runway is not long enough, and there are not enough lighting facilities.
In addition, the weather is bad right now, there are big storms, and the visibility is very low.
The damage to our aircraft itself is unknown, and the landing gear cannot be opened. So whether it can land safely is still unknown. And everyone needs to be prepared to save himself!
A passenger wrote in a recall article: “The plane was getting closer and closer to the ground, and then we saw that the two rows of navigation lights were actually lined up by American soldiers holding hand lights.
This is a torch-like torch, not an ordinary flashlight.
They risked their lives to stand on both sides of the runway, illuminating the runway brightly.
They were dressed in fire-resistant suits and masks, with ambulances and fire trucks parked behind them.
Feeling the tires hit the ground, there was deafening applause in the cabin, followed by endless cheers.
After the plane taxied, it finally stopped successfully, and the U.S. military outside the window hugged and cheered, and the cheers inside and outside the cabin became one! ”
Ultimately, the plane made an emergency landing at U.S. Air Force Base Simil in the Aleutian Islands.
The U.S. military vacated housing, and hospitals and other facilities were actively rescued. The incident resulted in the death of 2 passengers and injuries to 149 passengers and 7 crew members.
The white in the picture is the accident area, and the arrow points to Russia’s “Kamchatka Peter Pavlovsk Airport”, called Yelizovo Airport in the former Soviet Union, which is a large airport that can take off and land heavy bombers.
This airport is at least three times closer to the white area where the Eastern Airlines accident occurred than the US military airport where it finally landed.
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On November 4, 2016, Natalia Poklonskaya (then a Russian MP), known as the “beautiful prosecutor of Crimea”, made insulting remarks to China. She had insisted on joining Russia during the Crimea crisis.
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Are you sure she made insulting remarks to(at?) China? Please provide verbatim quote and any official news website url as reference.
I found what she was purported to say from “www.detroitnews.com”.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2021/02/16/covid-disinformation-china-leading-role/6762155002/
And this is what was reported:
” Russian politicians joined the chorus. Parliamentarian Natalia Poklonskaya argued that the novel coronavirus could be a biological weapon created “by those who want to rule the planet” to undermine China.”
Here it’s reported she said “…by those who want to rule the planet to undermine China.” She is not against China, she is saying “someone” else is trying to sabotage China. So if anything else, you can even say she is very pro-China in her statement here. Is this the same statement you claimed she was making insulting remarks “to” China?