China backs down in international diplomacy on Ukraine

Despite its economic and military might and close ties with Russia, China tried to pressure Vladimir Putin to stop fighting in Ukraine.

China has repeatedly called for peace talks in Ukraine. What he hasn’t done is negotiate an end to a war on Russia that has already claimed thousands of lives, displaced millions and affected the world’s economy and even the world’s economy. that threatens to disrupt food security.

Despite calls by other world leaders to play a more active role, China has instead tried to keep its distance. It has urged peace, but has not moved to mediate or hold talks, leaving such efforts to much smaller powers, including France, Turkey and Israel.

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China has repeatedly called for peace talks in Ukraine. What he hasn’t done is negotiate an end to a war on Russia that has already claimed thousands of lives, displaced millions and affected the world’s economy and even the world’s economy. that threatens to disrupt food security.

Despite calls by other world leaders to play a more active role, China has instead tried to keep its distance. It has urged peace, but has not moved to mediate or hold talks, leaving such efforts to much smaller powers, including France, Turkey and Israel.

The result has been that China has been left diplomatically, unable or unwilling to exert influence in times of conflict, commensurate with its growing economic and military power.

“If Xi really wants to end the crisis,” said John Dellery, a professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, the flat-footed response testifies to China’s impotence in world politics, the great deal of decades. position of power despite development. ,

Officials in Beijing say they want to stop the genocide. According to Chinese officials, in a video conference call with President Joe Biden last Friday, Xi endorsed a two-part approach: a ceasefire, followed by humanitarian aid.

However, it is not clear whether Xi has informed Russian President Vladimir Putin. They spoke on February 24, the day after the war broke out, but not since. Xi has yet to speak to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.

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As the fighting has progressed, and with it the toll in human suffering, Chinese diplomats have been forced to defend the sharp contrast to Beijing’s stance.

He has spoken of humanitarian aid to Ukraine but refused to criticize Putin’s government for creating a humanitarian crisis. China’s ambassador to Ukraine, Fan Jianrong, told officials in Lviv that China was a “force of good” for the country and praised Ukrainian unity in the event of a war, which officials in Beijing would not describe as an invasion.

China’s avoidance of any criticism of Russia undermines its claim to be a neutral side.

“Don’t be naive,” China’s ambassador to the United States Qin Gang said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday when pressed to explain why China refused to criticize Russia’s invasion. “Condemning doesn’t solve the problem.”

China’s stance ahead of a planned summit between the EU and China on April 1 has hardened its views on Europe, which has shown remarkable unity against Russian aggression. It has also warned the United States that explicit economic or military aid to Russia would result in severe punishment against China.

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China’s policy is tied to Xi’s deep, even personal ties with the Russian leader. The war has become tense but those bonds have not yet been broken.

Chinese officials also shared Putin’s view of the United States, accusing it of fanning the flames that ignited the war by expanding NATO. He has also criticized the US use of economic and trade sanctions to punish Russia.

In the zero-sum calculation that drives policymaking, pressuring Russia to make concessions would effectively strengthen the position of the United States and its allies. At the same time, China also cannot afford to break its ties with them.

“China has no other partner of the same strategic weight as Russia, which shares its distrust of the current international order,” said Bilhari Kaushikan, former ambassador of Singapore to Russia and the United Nations. “And that’s the bottom line. They won’t do anything that fundamentally jeopardizes relations with Russia or weakens Putin’s grip on power.”

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In Washington, officials see Xi’s position as a duality, comparing it to China’s handling of diplomacy around North Korea’s nuclear program. In that case, it has called on the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions, while still providing it with energy and other products to blunt the effects of UN sanctions.

In some ways, talks over North Korea’s nuclear program are a high-water mark for China’s international diplomacy.

China backs down in international diplomacy on Ukraine

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