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

Communist China strives for learning 'profound lessons' from collapse of Soviet Union

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

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.