Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Russia and will talk to the Ukrainian president in an attempt to extinguish the war

The Chinese regime has launched a ambitious operation to try to undo Russia’s war against Ukraine which upsets its economic interests. The management will include an upcoming visit by President Xi Jinping to Moscow to meet Vladimir Putin and an unprecedented dialogue since the beginning of the conflict with President Volodimir Zelenski.

The agency Reuters and the business journal Wall Street Journal In the last few hours, some details of this novelty have been advanced, which for the moment have not been confirmed by the countries involved.

The American newspaper, which cited sources linked to the initiative, said that Xi’s virtual meeting with Zelensky will take place after the Chinese president’s meeting with his colleague in Moscow. This was demonstrated by the Ukrainian head of state open to Chinese participation in this type of negotiations despite the diplomatic support that the Asian power has shown to the Kremlin.

Kiev’s ambassador in Rome, Yaroslav Melnyk, reacted to the news on Monday by stating that “we respect China’s will to Please help us resolve this conflict… leaders will have the opportunity to speak directly and share their position. We hope that with a country as big as China, a solution to this war can be found,” she concluded.

The Chinese leader reflects trip to Moscow next week. This appointment was scheduled to take place in April or May. The advance is suggestive according to analysts. Beijing needs to end the war because, among other setbacks, it generates a large argumentative structure for the United States to question China and support its tough tariff and protectionist policies.

In this sense, the Asian giant is concerned about the contraction of global economic activity which, according to the IMF, will register a meager growth of 1.5% this year. Part of the problems with this behavior are due to the war Russia launched against Ukraine last year and so on continues stagnant and with no clear possibility of ending.

A few weeks ago, the People’s Republic released a 12-point peace plan that was met with skepticism by the United States and the European Union, even though Ukraine gave it a chance. That program had a clear ambiguity which raised doubts. The first point stated that the Charter of the United Nations, which imposes respect for the territorial sovereignty of countries on all members, must be respected, that is, it marked a criticism of Russia’s offensive.

But the following points raised the need for a ceasefire but he clearly did not call for the withdrawal of the invaders of Ukrainian territory, which is an essential condition for any negotiations according to Ukraine and according to a certain logic in this type of event.

kyiv even demands that moscow withdraw from the Crimean peninsula which it took in 2014. In the same proposal, Beijing raised a point central to Russian interests and criticized NATO without naming it, arguing that the security of some should not be ensured at the expense of the insecurity of others.

Washington ruled out that peace plan and instead denounced, without providing concrete evidence, that one Beijing is considering the possibility of delivering weapons to Russia for use in the conflict.

Such a possibility is considered unlikely by analysts who warn that if that were to happen, the Chinese regime would lose the rest of the trust it still maintains with the European Union, one of the most important areas of its commercial exchange which continues to be very active also with the United States.

China has a formidable influence on Russia also to impose their opinions. It became Moscow’s largest energy commodity customer after the war cost the Kremlin the growing business it had managed to generate with the German-led European bloc.

The Russian autocrat said last month that Xi’s visit had already been arranged. Putin, with some anxiety, try to show that covenant in a moment of difficulty on the military front. But in a previous meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, there was a clear attitude of contempt on the part of the Chinese leader towards his colleague and at no time did he support the Russian position in favor of the conflict.

It happens that the war has become a grave inconvenience to Chinese global interests. Xi Jinping has just reached an unprecedented third term at the helm of the government and must resolve one of the main concerns of the regime linked to the evolution of the economy which arises from a sharp decline due to the zero covid policy with closures of companies and cities imposed up to recently by the CCP.

In this sense, the budget prepared by the Asian power envisages a five per cent growth for this year, considered possible by the technicians. But if it did, the country would still be two percent below pre-pandemic levels.

China also comes from obtaining an important diplomatic result with which it would strengthen its negotiating skills. A few days ago, Iran and Saudi Arabia, two archenemies, announced the resumption of diplomatic relations in a rapprochement built under the direct umbrella of Beijing and without including Washington.

Clarin and agencies