Chinese President Xi Jinping today called for “maximum restraint” in Ukraine and said China was “in pain to see the flames of war re-ignited in Europe,” state media said today in its strongest statement 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 the priority should be not to escalate or “get out of control”, the Chinese president told CCTV.
“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 “is ready to send humanitarian aid to Ukraine,” the Chinese president said, reiterating his opposition to his country’s principle of international sanctions, saying the measures taken against Moscow “would hurt all sides”.
China, which has refused to condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine or call them an invasion, has repeatedly stated its opposition to what it calls illegal sanctions against Russia.
China’s friendship with Russia, which was strengthened 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 war in Ukraine is escalating.
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.
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