An article on the Ukraine war and its potential impact on China captioned 'Learning to live

under the containment of the West—Influence and Enlightenment of the Ukraine War' by

Zhang Zhikun of the PLA-affiliated Kunlun Policy Research Institute highlighted the acute

concern of the CCP's upper echelons of China being targeted by the U.S. with sanctions.

Published on April 29, the article states that the international order is actually the result of a

"violent, barbaric and bloody colonial expansion of Western countries that made the global

map what it is today. The crazy colonial expansion movement allowed Western whites to invade and occupy all parts of the world, and let their descendants rule for generations." Claiming that "The Ukrainian war marks that Russia has finished a round and has made huge gains", the article assessed that "in the coming period, the United States and the West will focus on how to oust Putin and create various political "revolutionary" movements in Russia; they will focus on containing Russia, intensifying the surrounding geopolitical competition, and attacking Russia's weaknesses, such as winning over Finland." It maintained that the US-Russia confrontation will intensify "the basic strategy of the United States' "strategic competition" is to weaken Russia and contain China at the same time". It averred "the United States will pay more attention to consolidating and strengthening the achievements made in containing and containing China in the previous period, and strictly prevent China from taking the opportunity to break through the encirclement". Under such conditions, it said, "China's relations with Western countries will become more precarious, and close economic and trade ties, personnel exchanges, financial ties, etc...may be broken at any time". It apprehended that "Comprehensive and all-round containment of China by the hegemonic bloc with the United States at its core is inevitable. Sanctions and blockades of China may happen at any time”. It exhorted that "To this end, all patriotic Chinese must drop all illusions about the United States and the West, get rid of their dependence on Western blocs in all important relationships, and smash their control in all key technologies. It has come and gone in this way, and New China should continue to walk in the past and go into the future in this way!"