The "brilliant" achievements of the Russian Federation in Ukraine explain to the Chinese that the Russian army is a paper tiger, Oreshkin said.

Russian political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin has assessed the likelihood of a war between China and Russia in the near future.

He expressed his opinion on this matter in an interview with UNIAN.

Commenting on the recent statement by American analyst Craig Cooper that China could abandon Taiwan and "reconsider" its borders with Russia, the political scientist said that "this should have been expected a long time ago."

"I don't think it's a direct threat anymore. But it's a growing threat. Xi Jinping's China is pursuing a serious military reform that should be completed by 2027," Oreshkin said.

In his opinion, just as the very weak performance of the USSR in the Finnish war convinced Hitler that he would spin his most famous concept of blitzkrieg in a year, so the “brilliant” Russian achievements in Ukraine explain to the Chinese that the Russian army is a paper tiger.

“In any case, in five years, China will become stronger, and Russia will weaken because it will have to pay reparations to pay for the absolutely idiotic decisions of the top leadership taken in February of this year. Then Beijing will have a genuine temptation to remember that more 100 years ago, some territories belonged to China, and Russia entered there, and isn’t it time for her to leave? That is, they will, of course, find a historical pretext, the main thing is the balance of military forces. And China will obviously have more of it than Russia ", Oreshkin is sure.

The political scientist added that Putin is defeated in the Ukrainian fields, which undoubtedly undermines the Russian army's prestige, shows its real inefficiency, and, accordingly, tempts the mighty neighbor from the east to restore "historical justice."