Originally Posted by
Big Pistons Forever
The US has powerful weapons to punish China for flagrant sanctions violations. I don’t see any upside for China to get the US upset over this particular issue.
Sanctions for flagrant sanctions violations, yep. Though not for the gray area situations.
As WR6-3 writes, about everything happening now in this area is a flagrant violation of WESTERN (initiated/based) international law. However, both China and Russia just consider these international laws nothing more than a nuisance. Easy to use, when it fits their need, and just ignore with strange reasoning, when it does not fit. For example, check how China manages to continuing ignoring Western ownership of intellectual property rights.
And, for this ownership situation, China will have the opportunity to just state: "Look, we do have 2 conflicting court judgments, first resolve that among the 2 of you, before we will take action". A gray situation, China deliberately created, just to avoid sanctions and of course "help" Autocrat friend Vladimir.
Though, let's see things on the bright side and assume, I am wrong being skeptical. History will tell how this develops.
