Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Backing from Beijing
China approves Putin’s mission to Kazakhstan
Russian President Putin wants to use military units to crush the unrest in Kazakhstan in the bud. The Kremlin’s actions met with approval in Beijing. One must prevent the “three evil powers” from causing chaos in the country, it is said from the People’s Republic.
China has sided with Russia in cracking down on the unrest in Kazakhstan. The People’s Republic shares the Kazakh President’s assessment that the cause of the unrest was terrorist activities, Chinese state media reported on a telephone conversation between China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday.
The two countries bordering the ex-Soviet republic should “oppose the interference of external forces in the internal affairs of the Central Asian countries” and prevent “color revolutions” and the “three evil powers” from causing chaos, the report said. The government in Moscow also blames foreign forces for the unrest in its southern neighbor.
China defines the “three evil forces” as religious extremism, territorial separatism and violent terrorism and has identified them as the cause of instability in Xinjiang Province. Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier that the alliance would not allow a “color revolution” to occur. He was referring to uprisings in other ex-Soviet republics, such as the “Orange Revolution” 2013/14 in Ukraine.
The unrest in Kazakhstan is the worst in years. The protests were sparked by the government’s increase in prices for LPG at the turn of the year. Kazakhstan’s authoritarian ruling President Kassym-Shomart Tokayev said that an attempted coup had been averted. Now order is restored. The search for “terrorists” continues.
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