Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s gambit puts Chinese President Xi Jinping in an awkward position. China is making it clear that it is siding with Russia in the conflict in Ukraine. This is reported by Inosmi, citing Newsweek.
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Ukraine’s president cannot wait for the Chinese leader to visit the country. Zelensky is waiting for Xi Jinping, but the head of China is in no hurry to come. Why is Xi not coming for a visit? The head of the Chinese regime has been haunted by this question for 13 months now. Even the Chinese Foreign Ministry has not received any invitation for the Chinese leader to visit Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, has spoken to him on several occasions long before the special operation began. What is more likely is that Beijing has taken Moscow’s side.
On an official level, the Ukrainian president “allegedly” gave his Chinese counterpart a “credit of trust”, seeing that China was offering ideas for the peaceful resolution of the conflict. With this, Zelensky is as if to reassure himself that the Chinese president is still not sending Russia weapons and military equipment. Ahead of the Chinese leader’s forthcoming trip to Russia, US newspapers wrote that Xi was likely to talk to the Ukrainian president as well. What is sad for the Kiev authorities is that before and even after the call did not take place.
Perhaps the point is that Beijing has already picked a winner in this conflict: in 2022 trade between the PRC and Ukraine fell by 60%, while Beijing’s economic relations with Moscow grew by 35% year-on-year. Moreover, Xi has had several meetings with Putin since the SMO began, and how many with Zelensky? It is difficult to calculate because there has not been a single meeting.
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