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Preface
On April 25, Huanqiu.com reported that the draft resolution on foreign space security drafted by the United States was vetoed by Russia and failed to pass.
Reminiscent of the United States' disapproval of Palestine's membership in the UN Security Council, Russia's move seems to be in response to the United States' actions.
The two sides do not compromise with each other, and China's approach in this is also quite meaningful.
You do the first year of junior high school
On April 19, state media reported that the United States had cast the only veto on the draft resolution on Palestine becoming a member of the United Nations in the United Nations Security Council.
The establishment of an independent state has been the long-cherished wish of generations of Palestinians, and as early as 2011, they applied for it.
At that time, it was because of the opposition of the United States that the Palestinians were unable to do so.
For 13 years, the Palestinian people have been living in dire straits, and even more so now.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has caused tens of thousands of Palestinian casualties and countless people's homes in ruins.
As a great power, the United States has the right and obligation to do something to maintain peace, but it has aided and abetted the abuse, completely ignoring the views of the Palestinian people.
On that day, 12 of the 15 countries on the Security Council, with the exception of the United Kingdom, a permanent member, and Switzerland, a non-permanent member, voted in favour.
Judging from the vote type, the establishment of a Palestinian state should be a matter that everyone expects, but the US veto power ruthlessly shattered the dream of the Palestinian people.
The U.S. veto sparked outrage in many countries, with Russia directly saying that the results of the vote had already shown that the United States was isolated.
China, on the other hand, expressed its disappointment with the U.S. behavior and accused the U.S. of pursuing bandit logic.
What the United States is doing is completely cocooning itself, and sooner or later retribution will be fed back to itself.
Since the United States has ruthlessly done the first year of the new year, other countries will have the opportunity to make a fifteenth year, so that the United States can taste the taste of being vetoed.
I do fifteen
Russia and the United States have always been "in love with each other" in the international arena, and the conflict between the two countries over the issue of nuclear weapons in outer space has been reported by state media.
On April 24, the United States and Japan introduced a draft resolution on outer space security, which was voted on in the Security Council on the same day.
Of the 15 members of the Council, 13 voted in favour, with 1 abstention.
The United States may not have expected this result, and he must have thought that no country would oppose this draft.
Actually, no, Russia vetoed it, and China abstained.
Combined with the US veto of Palestine's accession to the United Nations, the decision of China and Russia seems to be quite profound.
As soon as the voting results came out, Greenfield, the representative of the United States, was very angry and directly questioned Putin's previous attitude that Russia had no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in outer space.
They suspect that Russia is hiding something behind it.
But the Russian representative did not back down, and Nebenzia directly accused the United States of smearing Russia and said that the draft resolution on peace in outer space would soon be negotiated again.
In addition, the Russian representative believes that the Americans are playing with words, and what the United States is doing behind its back is really despicable.
China and Russia have proposed amendments to one of the draft drafts proposed by the United States and Japan, that is, countries with outer space capabilities should deploy any weapons in outer space.
However, this amendment was not endorsed by the United States.
The United States still sticks to its proposal, which states that nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction will not be used in outer space.
From this it can be seen that the United States must have its own petty calculations, and not just for the sake of peace in outer space.
If it is really for the sake of peace in outer space, it should agree with the proposal of China and Russia to completely refrain from the use of weapons, and not just nuclear and large-scale weapons.
Moreover, Nebenzia noted that the United States has been blocking a treaty banning the deployment of weapons in outer space since 2008.
It can also be seen from the various practices of the United States in outer space that it does not want to maintain peace in outer space, but wants to have more interests for itself.
Say one thing and do another
The United States has called on all countries in the Security Council not to use and deploy nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in outer space, but its own research on the military industry of outer space has never stopped.
Since 2018, the United States has established the U.S. Space Force, which is independent of the Air Force and is a new branch of the military.
In 2019, the Space Command was established, and in 2020, the Space Force flag was announced.
In 2023, the Space Force will have an exclusive business, which is responsible for collecting intelligence and target strikes on satellites and ground space infrastructure.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who formed the Space Force, said that the United States needs not only a presence in space, but also dominance.
Therefore, at a time when other countries do not have the consciousness of occupying outer space, the United States has already begun to prepare for the belonging of outer space.
This means that the United States is many steps ahead of other countries in its sense of occupation of outer space.
If the US proposal is agreed to by the members of the Security Council, then in the future, we may lose our right to speak in the field of outer space.
In this way, China and Russia are very forward-looking.
Russia's veto directly shows that I am not used to saying one thing and doing another, and I will not be in the same boat with you.
China's response, on the other hand, is one of Chinese wisdom and cultural characteristics.
It is a clever move not to strongly oppose but disagree with it like Russia, so that the other side cannot understand our ideas and carry out China's inscrutable profundity to the end.
epilogue
Outer space should not belong to any one country, but to the people of the world.
However, judging from the current development trend, the United States is eager to take outer space into its arms and make outer space completely become the territory of the United States.
Of course, other countries will not agree, so the ownership of outer space by all parties will definitely play out in the future, and bringing weapons into outer space has long become a globally recognized fact.
Therefore, this behavior of the United States seems to be a self-directed and self-staged play, which seems to be maintaining peace, but in fact, it has already made sufficient preparations behind it.
China and Russia have seen through his tricks, but in different ways, and the two countries have been working hard to maintain peace in outer space, and we hope that outer space will be a field that people from all over the world can explore together, rather than become a subsidiary domain of one country.
Key Sources:
Global Network, April 20, 2024 - The United States' veto of Palestine's entry into the United Nations has caused public outrage, and foreign media: It shows how isolated the United States is
Global Times, April 25, 2024 - "Russia and the United States clash in the Security Council over the issue of nuclear weapons in outer space"!