ANALYSIS: Chinese Ambassador Reveals CCP’s Fear of Soviet-Style Collapse in China

ANALYSIS: Chinese Ambassador Reveals CCP’s Fear of Soviet-Style Collapse in China
A man walks past cardboard cutouts of Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump, Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin in downtown Moscow on Aug. 7, 2019. Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images
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Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye angered many countries with his televised remark that the ex-Soviet Union countries did not have sovereign status. However, this seemingly inadvertent remark reveals a deep-seated fear the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had for the last three decades—that the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and demise of the Soviet Party will happen again in China, experts said.

In an interview with French television network LCI on April 21, Lu claimed that former Soviet states had no “effective status” in international law.
Jenny Li has contributed to The Epoch Times since 2010. She has reported on Chinese politics, economics, human rights issues, and U.S.-China relations. She has extensively interviewed Chinese scholars, economists, lawyers, and rights activists in China and overseas.
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