“Crimean” propaganda of the aggressor reacted quite hysterically to statements by the President of Ukraine about the failure of communist China to fulfill its obligations under the Budapest Memorandum after the beginning of the occupation and subsequent attempt to annex Crimea in 2014.
Among other things, the occupiers stated that allegedly “the PRC not only was not a participant in it, but also physically could not be one, since at the time of signing it did not have such a status in relation to the post-Soviet space and did not give any obligations to Kiev”, which is an obvious and deliberate lie of the aggressor’s propaganda.
Let us recall that communist China, like France, joined the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 thirty years ago, by providing the relevant guarantee statements.
In February 2024, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in his keynote speech at the Munich Security Conference, confirmed that China had approved the Budapest Memorandum “through a government declaration.”
Wang Yi tried to justify in Munich the steps Beijing allegedly took on this matter, and cited Xi Jinping’s previous statement on this matter that “nuclear weapons should never be used, and a nuclear war should never be waged, all parties should jointly protect the security of nuclear materials and facilities,” and that “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries should be respected.”
These statements by Wang Yi that “China has not sat idly by” and that China allegedly “fulfilled its promises and international obligations,” promptly published on the official website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry following the Munich Conference, can be perceived critically in terms of the “sufficiency” and “effectiveness” of China’s response to Russian aggression, which clearly violated the Budapest Memorandum.
But they, like Xi Jinping’s statements, confirm both China’s participation in the Budapest Memorandum and China’s recognition of the role of this document as creating international obligations for Beijing. Thus, communist China was and is, both de jure and de facto, a full-fledged participant in this memorandum.
Obviously, the Chinese authorities would be extremely “pleasantly surprised” by the current denial in the “Crimean” propaganda of the occupiers of China’s status as a nuclear power “in relation to the post-Soviet space”, if they had time to familiarize themselves with such fabrications of the Kremlin servants.
