Putin's Ukraine grab complicates Chicom Taiwan claims

 Breitbart:

Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize the two regions of Ukraine’s Donbas as sovereign states on Monday has complicated Moscow’s relationship with China, which expressed support for Russia while not directly addressing the issue of legitimizing separatists.

Putin announced in a convoluted speech to the Russian public on Monday that he would formally recognize the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and “Luhansk People’s Republic” – Russian proxies that have been openly at war with Ukraine for eight years – as states, which allows Putin to claim that the leaders of those “states” have requested the formal presence of the Russian military. Putin greenlit sending “peacekeeping” forces into the two regions shortly after his speech.

In the speech, Putin claimed that “Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood” and that Ukraine only exists because of a “mistake” by Vladimir Lenin.
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Wang notably did not mention Donetsk or Luhansk in his first answer, leading to several questions directly asking if Beijing would recognize the Russia-backed separatists in those regions as state governments. The New York Times specifically asked Wang if Russian proxies in Donetsk and Luhansk claiming independence was similar to Taiwan’s existence as a sovereign state for decades, which China denies. According to the Foreign Ministry’s official transcript, Wang refused to answer directly....
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Aggressors always have a way of rationalizing their moves.  Russia's rationalizations are inconsistent with the Chicom Taiwan claims.