{"id":35271,"date":"2026-08-31T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/35271\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:09:14","slug":"china-will-stop-russia-from-going-nuclear-finlands-stubb-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/35271\/","title":{"rendered":"China will stop Russia from going nuclear, Finland\u2019s Stubb says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.cn\/mfa_eng.\/wjbzhd\/202607\/t20260706_11976141.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">met<\/a> Stubb in Helsinki on July 5, with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and European security among the issues discussed. China remains one of Moscow\u2019s most important economic and diplomatic partners.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb also argued that Moscow benefits from keeping Europeans fixated on the prospect of nuclear escalation or a direct attack on NATO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia wants us Europeans to sit here and discuss: Will Russia escalate? Will Russia use nuclear weapons? Will Russia attack NATO and Europe?\u201d the Finnish leader said.<\/p>\n<p>His prescription was characteristically restrained: \u201cStay calm, stay cool, stay collected, stay vigilant. Don\u2019t dramatize, prepare for the worst in order to avoid it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That measured tone is familiar from Stubb. In May, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/alexander-stubb-says-finland-faces-no-direct-military-threat-after-drone-alert\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a drone<\/a> entered Finnish airspace near Helsinki and fighter jets were deployed, he insisted Finland was \u201cnot facing any direct military threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, he similarly played down fears of an imminent Russian assault on NATO, describing Moscow\u2019s attempts to probe the alliance as \u201cmore like teasing\u201d than preparation for war. Russia\u2019s troops remain tied down in Ukraine, he said, while NATO\u2019s deterrence makes a direct attack highly unlikely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Stubb in Helsinki on July 5, with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[774,1609,6653,775,39,3326,370,237,1903,5649,12251,213,4838,25,376,26,314,72],"class_list":["post-35271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-air-defense","tag-airspace","tag-alexander-stubb","tag-borders","tag-china","tag-communications","tag-defense","tag-drones","tag-energy","tag-finland","tag-global-reporters-network","tag-military","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}