Renmin University Prof. Yang Guangbin published an article captioned: "The world order after
the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: Americans eat meat, and the Chinese eat grass?" on May 2, on
the widely read Chinese portal guancha. Briefly, Yang Guangbin argued that the Soviet Union
"was the first country established.. to resist the global capitalist system". Ultimately, under
Gorbachev, it tried to integrate itself twice into this system (in 1986 and after disintegration),
but Yang Guangbin said these attempts "failed". As a result, Russia "had to contend with the
US in the form of the Russian-Ukrainian war". He even describes the Russian-Ukrainian war
as the "second major rebellion" after the "October Revolution". Yang Guangbin takes a long
view, beginning in 1875 when the capitalist system was formed. He points out that the AngloSaxon system is at "the top of the food chain," quoting Obama as having said that "if 1.4 billion
Chinese attain American standards of living, Americans can only eat grass". Thus, Yang Guangbin maintains, "the US must use all means to suppress China". He listed the
consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war as: (i) US attention has been diverted from AsiaPacific; (ii) EU has no security competition with China, more trade but also, they must respect
China's bottom line (points to Lithuania); (iii) US gained hard power at the expense of soft
power; (iv) US has lost its moral high ground. Yang Guangbin further asserts on Russia, that
"China will be a source for the recovery and development of the Russian economy". He adds
that these trends are "undoubtedly a strategic opportunity for China's development" but China
"needs to adhere to its own strategic roadmap". Prof. Yang Guangbin closes with a sense of
optimistic inevitability, saying that "China is too big, and as it develops, the world will naturally
change with it." This is even though "countries at the top of the food chain will not wait for the
development of a world-class China".
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