Winds of peace or winds of war? Today is the big day: Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow, where at 2:30 pm he will meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Tass news agency that they “will discuss China’s peace plan for Ukraine”.
The official statements at the end of the face-to-face meeting will say a lot about the continuation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the role that the Dragon has conquered for itself in this dramatic historical phase. The US and its European allies are waiting: the big fear is that China will no longer supply parts, but real weapons to Russia (a hypothesis denied by Beijing so far). Anyone who does not work for diplomacy is certainly Dmitry Medvedev.
The vice-president of the Security Council of Russia in a post on his Telegram channel threatened the International Court in The Hague, which yesterday issued an international arrest warrant for Putin on charges of deporting Ukrainian children: “Gentlemen, you all walk under God and missiles. It is quite possible to imagine the targeted use of a hypersonic Onyx from the North Sea by a Russian ship at the court in The Hague. And the court is just a miserable international organization and not the people of a NATO country. So they do not they will start a war. They will be afraid. And no one will regret it. So look closely at the sky.”
On the occasion of the first trip abroad (to Russia, from March 20 to 22) since being re-elected for a third term, Xi Jinping wrote an editorial in Rossiyskaya Gazeta identical and similar to that of Vladimir Putin in the Chinese People’s Daily. Xi sent several cross-cutting messages: “No country in the global arena has the right to have the final say in determining the existing world order. The international community has understood that no global power is superior to all others. The resolution of the conflict in Ukraine will be possible if the parties follow the guidelines of the concept of collective security. The common interest of all mankind is a united and peaceful world, rather than a divided and unstable one”.
The Beijing prime minister underscored China’s impartiality (unlike Putin and the People’s Republic of China media, who blame NATO and the United States for the war) on the Ukrainian crisis and reiterated that his government’s proposal “reflects global visions, even if the solutions are not easy”.
Source: IL Tempo
John Cameron is a journalist at The Nation View specializing in world news and current events, particularly in international politics and diplomacy. With expertise in international relations, he covers a range of topics including conflicts, politics and economic trends.
