Xi Jinping congratulated President Tokayev, who repressed the uprising in his country, considered an important link in the Chinese international investment program.
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China seems perfectly to accommodate the intervention of the Russian forces in Kazakhstan, after the request of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, confronted since January 2nd to a massive popular protest movement. Monday, January 10, during a telephone interview with his Kazakh counterpart, President Xi Jinping brought to him a support devoid of ambiguity: “You took decisive and strong actions at the critical moment, quickly calming the situation , which showed your responsibility and your commitment as a state man and your highly responsible attitude towards the country and its citizens, “said the number one Chinese, according to the official account.
Xi Jinping has made his thesis of Kazakh and Russian leaders that the protesters who, in early January, took place in power fomented a “color revolution”, implied were manipulated by the West. For Xi Jinping, China “is firmly opposed to all forces that undermine the stability of Kazakhstan”. As the Russian soldiers have the mission to restore order and “stability”, which they intervene at the request of the power in place and that their presence in the country is in principle that provisional, China does not seem to see any Disadvantage of their presence in Kazakhstan.
Criticizing this one would also come to Moscow and Nursoultan (former Astana), but also the other countries of the Organization of the Collective Safety Treaty (OTSC, which brings together, in addition to Russia and Kazakhstan , Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan), an official framework for this international military intervention. Monday, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, has also kept with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and announced that China supported the intervention of the OTSC “against violent terrorist forces”, According to the Chinese daily Global Times.
Need the Kazakh regime
For Beijing, Kazakhstan is an important link in its international investment program. It is also in the capital of this central Asian country that Xi Jinping had mentioned for the first time his project of “silk roads”. Beijing also needs support, at least implicit, from the Kazakh regime to its repressive policy towards Xinjiang Muslims (Ouity). Many of them are of original Kazakh and have family in this country of 18 million inhabitants.
The Kazakhstan has, in recent years, always tried to exploit their proximity to the two great neighbors. If China plays an important role in its economic development and Russia a major role in its military security, the former Soviet Republic also buys weapons in Beijing and takes care not to be too dependent on “silk roads”. . As long as Russia and China have good relations, which is undoubtedly the case at the moment, each of the three countries finds its interest.