China’s stance on Ukraine war and Jinping’s call for ‘maximum restraint’

The “maximum restraint” in Ukraine was demanded today by the Chinese president Xi Jinping and said that the China “Pain that sees the flames of war rekindled in Europe,” state media reported today. This is his strongest statement to date on the conflict.

Xi, speaking online to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Solz, said the three countries should jointly support peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, according to China’s state-run CCTV network.

Xi described the situation in Ukraine as “worrying” and said that the priority should be not to escalate or “get out of control”, said the Chinese president according to CCTV and as broadcast by international agencies and the Athens News Agency.

“We would like to call for greater restraint in order to avoid a large-scale humanitarian crisis,” Xi said. He also said that France and Germany should make efforts to reduce the negative impact of the crisis, and expressed concern about the impact of sanctions on the stability of the global financial system, energy supply, transport and supply chains.

China “ready to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine,” he said. Opposition to his country’s principle of international sanctions, saying the measures taken against Moscow “will harm all parties”.

The China-Russia friendship and the Beijing stance

China, which has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine or call them an invasionhas repeatedly expressed its opposition to what it refers to as illegal sanctions against Russia.

China’s friendship with Russiawhich intensified last month when President Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on the same day that the countries declared strategic cooperation “without limits”, has put Beijing in a difficult position as the war in Ukraine escalates.

Moscow describes its actions in Ukraine as a “special operation” to demilitarize its neighboring country and oust leaders it describes as neo-Nazis. Ukraine and its Western allies say this is a baseless pretext for an invasion aimed at conquering a country of 44 million people.

Source: News Beast

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