Chinese President Xi Jinping is “provid[ing] diplomatic cover” for Russian war crimes in Ukraine, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who dismissed Beijing’s peace proposal as a maneuver to aid Russia.
“That President Xi is traveling to Russia days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin suggests that China feels no responsibility to hold the Kremlin accountable for the atrocities committed in Ukraine,” Blinken told reporters Monday at the State Department. “And instead of even condemning them, it would rather provide diplomatic cover for Russia to continue to commit those very crimes.
“Any plan that does not prioritize this critical principle is a stalling tactic at best or is merely seeking to facilitate an unjust outcome. That is not constructive diplomacy,” Blinken said. “Calling for a ceasefire that does not include the removal of Russian forces from Ukrainian territory would effectively be supporting the ratification of Russian conquest.”
“It simply demonstrates that we have yet another capable diplomacy which can contribute to the two noble goals of peace and security and stability,” a senior Central Asian official told the Washington Examiner. “China wants — [the Middle East] was for many, many decades regarded as a West-dominated region. But things are much more dynamic now. Whether this will bring more instability or rather more positive outcomes, this remains to be seen.
"The future of the peace process depends solely on the will to engage in a meaningful discussion taking into account current geopolitical realities," Putin stated in a Sunday column drafted for a Chinese media outlet."Unfortunately, the ultimatum nature of requirements placed on Russia shows that their authors are detached from these realities and lack interest in finding a solution to the situation.
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