Although the Russian-White military exercises have ended, Foreign Minister Wang Yi also personally came out, and was still unable to persuade Poland.
A few days ago, Polish Minister of Interior and Administration Kerwinski announced that the border crossings between Poland and Belarus will remain closed until the situation returns to safety.
A week ago, Russia and Belarus launched the joint "West 2025" exercise, the day Poland closed all border ports leading to Belarus on the basis of "security threats".
The border between Poland, Ukraine and Belarus
As a result, Poland smiled face to face and also promised to jointly guarantee the safe and secure flow of the Central European line, turning the head back and regretting, continuing to close the white wave of the border.
The first is the statement from the Polish side, "national security". The Polish side believes that although the Russian-White joint exercises have ended, the threat to Poland still exists. Before the Russian-White exercises began, Poland claimed that a large number of Russian drones "invaded" the country's airspace. Poland urgently launched its own and NATO air defense systems to shoot them down. However, after the incident, Russia was lenient and misunderstood that these drones were used to strike targets within the territory of Ukraine, and did not intend to "cross the border" Poland.
Poland doesn't believe this explanation. Poland's vigilance against Russia is almost engraved in its genes, similar to the three Baltic countries. Especially in the Ukraine crisis, Russia repeatedly emphasized at the beginning that it would not act against Ukraine, but ended up starting directly from Belarus. How can this make Poland feel at ease?
Moreover, after the drone was the Russian-Belarus concert, it turned out to be warning and deterrence, Poland also acted quickly, not only closing the border ports, but also to the eastern border to add troops to 40,000, and at the end of the exercise in Russia-Belarus, more than 30,000 soldiers, coordinated with NATO many countries to conduct military exercises code "Iron Gate". The goal is also clear, is to respond to the threat from the east.
Schematic diagram of China-Europe train
Poland says it will reopen its borders only after security is guaranteed.
The second is related to China.The closing of the white-wave border ports has the most direct impact on Central Europe.
Currently, Central Europe has three major railway transportation channels in the West, Central Europe and the East, and these three channels need to travel through Poland to enter other European countries. So Poland's operation, the impact on China's trade can be imagined. It is that in just a week, about 300 trains of Central Europe stayed on the Polish border, and about 90% of Central Europe's ferry transportation was affected.
But back and forth, although the relations between Belarus and Poland are bad, but far less than the degree of closing the border ports, the U.S. battled the most fiercely, and when relations with NATO were the most tense, Poland did not do so, why was it so sensitive to this exercise and drones?
The meeting of the US-Russian leaders in Alaska seems to be very important, the reality of promoting a ceasefire in Russia and Ukraine is of no help, the United States and Europe have no way to do it, just in Poland there is a situation, as long as China and Europe list something, China must come out to solve, and at the time to ask for water to the canal.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi Visits Poland
Therefore, Foreign Minister Wang Yi came to meet with the Polish president and foreign ministers, and after two days of conversations, Poland agreed to ensure the safe passage of the China-European lane.
However, Foreign Minister Wang Yi made it very clear that the China-Europe freight train is a mutually beneficial project, and he hoped that Poland would proceed from its own long-term interests and those of Europe and promote a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis. The meaning is very clear. It is absolutely impossible for Poland and the West to unilaterally force China to agree to the conditions by this means. The China-Europe train benefits both sides, and Poland has developed into a European logistics hub because of this. If economy and trade are linked to geopolitics, it will only hurt yourself.
The case of Poland also gave us a wake-up, while developing overseas trade, the defence support should also be followed in time. the crisis of the Red Sea, the closure of Poland, after a few similar examples, must make the worst intention, align the plan, to be prepared without danger.