Three years in Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, China is closely monitoring the strategy of US President Donald Trump to end the War, as Beijing himself has his tricks for the position as a strategic partner for Ukraine. Calculated, while there is no limit with Russia, according to experts, according to experts and former officers.
This week, the British Prime Minister Kir Strandmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, Saudi capital Riyadh, are ready to hold in-tradition meetings in Washington after senior US and Russian officials on 18 February.
Macron met Trump for a meeting at the White House on Monday morning, which lasted for about two hours. The two leaders participated in a videocancture along with other G7 leaders about Ukraine.
Earlier on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who updated Xi on Riyadh talks and confirmed the “comprehensive partnership” between Russia and China. A Chinese readout said, “China welcomes the positive efforts made by Russia and concerned parties to resolve the crisis.”
‘Crisis’ but it was not
For three years, Chinese officials have stated that Russia’s aggression Sion will “play a creative role” in the “political agreement of crisis”, avoiding using the term “Ukraine War” on 24 February 2022.
So Beijing recently appreciated the US-Russia talks, during which Ukraine was not present.
China and Ukraine “established a strategic partnership in 2011. … In recent years, China is the largest trading partner in Ukraine,” Chinese Furricane Wang Yi on the margin of the Munich Security Conference on 15 February Ukrainian Andrey Sibiha on 15 February Told it.
“About the Ukrainian crisis … China has always worked for peace and promotion talks,” Wang said. In particular, the Chinese readout of the meeting did not make any mineral of the sovereign or regional integrity of Ukraine.
On February 20, two days after the US Russia talks, Wang held an in-tradition discussion with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a G20 minister meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Lavrov informed him on Riyadh talks. Wang confirmed China’s “broad strategic partnership” with Russia.
Wang said that China supports all efforts dedicated to PECE, which includes “the recent consensus between the United States and Russia” in Riyadh.
Talks, not conversation
US State Secretary Marco Rubio said that Riyadh talks – over the years between Washington and Moscow – was not interacted with the purpose of striking in any way on Ukraine, despite the concern of Ukraine and European countries that they were lying.
Hey negotiations were to determine whether Russia was serious about ending war.
In a measured tone, Rubio explained the specialty of the talks – which lasted for more than four hours – steps towards setting up “lines of communication” on bilateral issues between the United States and Russia. These efforts aim to get “some general status in our missions and their ability to function”.
Some analysts said that Beijing is nervous on the reset of American Russia relations.
Dennis Wilder, which former US President George W. Bush’s top White House was advisor, “If Trump reduces restrictions on Russia, they are not full of relations, they are nervous, because if Trump reduces the restrictions on Russia, they get nervous . ” , Told RFE/RL,
But others warned that the US took the risk of promoting China’s global information campaign, which depicts Washington as an incredible ally.
A defense analyst at Washington -based Foundation for Defense of Democracy (FDD), retired rear admiral Mark Montgomery said, “We immediately gave what we had benefited” and “wrongly what was aggressive” Russian.
China, “Stumbling in this good news,” definitely benefits, Montgomery said Recently hosted by webinar FDD,
I have no doubt that China is whispering ears around the world about the unreliability of diplomatic Americans from China, and unfortunately, this administration is talking something, “Bradley Boman, Center on Military and Politics Center at FDD in FDD Senior director of Bradley Boman, said during the webinar.
Experts suspect
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson refused to comment on whether China’s wood consider the Shanti Sena singing in Ukraine after the end of the struggle.
Xi and Putin are about to exchange a trip to Moscow and Beijing later this year. Both held a virtual meeting on 21 January. In addition, Xi took a phone call from Putin on the afternoon of 24 February.
Some users US authorities suspect to what extent the Chinese government is ready to work to stop Russia. He believes that China can use the issue as an ignition in his behavior with Trump.
“I think Chinese will look at the issue of Ukraine, and they will offer some help to Trump. They probably will not do much, and then they will claim success,” Ivan Mediros, director of the Asian Studies Program of Georgetown University, recently I said Podcast with Indo-Pacific Program of German Martial FundMedios served at the White House National Security Council from 2009 to 2015.
“Anything that is in their direct physical interests, such as helping to reconstruct Ukraine, will embrace. But of course, it has nothing to do with encouraging Russia to reach the peace deal. It is about to ensure that Chinese infrastructure companies get a lot of large fat contracts, ”said Mediros.
