Dall’analisi di Pavel K. Baev, The Jamestown Foundation: (…) The central event at the Bali summit was the three-hour-long meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and while the two official readouts on the content of discussion differed in some important details, the common rejection of nuclear escalation was clear (Svoboda, November 15). Xi aspires to assert China’s status as a power equal to the United States and seeks to protect its reputation as a responsible stakeholder in the world order against the risk of being associated too closely with troublesome Russia (Nezavisimaya gazeta, November 15). (…) Russia is positioning itself as the champion of taking down the Western-dominated world order, and the nuclear non-proliferation regime constitutes an important pillar of this always evolving order. A single strike with a non-strategic nuclear warhead may not make that much difference on the thinly populated battlefields in Donbas (though the impact should not be underestimated), but it is certain to severely shake global governance. The re-energized and determined West is deploying every possible means of deterrence for preventing a breach of the nuclear taboo. But it is essential to also mobilize this support in the Global South, which may remain ambivalent about the parameters of the war but is certainly opposed to a nuclear escalation. China may not want to see Russia defeated, but Beijing’s every word about the unacceptability of nuclear threats adds to the wall that blocks Putin’s blackmail.
Putin’s Nuclear Blackmail Hits US Resolve and Chinese Wall – Jamestown
