RETHINKING - MARCH 20, 2023 - CHINA IN BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

 
The trip of China’s President Xi to Russia and Ukraine opens a new chapter in the war that started a year ago. This is the subject of The Wall Street Journal’s story titled “China’s Xi Arrives in Moscow as Beijing Seeks to Position Itself as a Peacemaker”.

The story was written by Thomas Grove and it started with a gloomy observation: “But with Russia and Ukraine fighting for advantage on the battlefield neither is interested in talks for now.”

Russia’s President Putin doesn’t want to recognize that till now his country really didn’t make significant progress after the 2014’s war.

From the Ukrainian side, President Zelensky wants to recover the territory that his country lost in 2014 including the Crimea Peninsula.

Both belligerent countries expect to redefine the current geography in the battlefield when the spring campaign starts.

It is interesting to see that the bloggers who wrote comments behind the WSJ's story don’t show optimism about the  “declared intentions” of President XI to become a peacemaker of this war.

Everybody believes that the Chinese leader is trying to help Mr. Putin before the Russian President drowns in the blood of his dead soldiers.
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And like the author of the story says, President Zelensky is willing to welcome President Xi to Kyiv, while he maintains his conditions that everybody knows.

Ukraine can be not accept "the peace until Russian troops leave Ukraine entirely, including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine that Moscow has occupied since 2014.”

My comments posted in the blog section of WSJ Online were:

1) China has hurry for the peace treaty because it is playing to legalize in Putin's benefit the Ukrainian territories that Russia took since 2014.

2) The peace treaty brokered by China is a farce.

Other bloggers of the Wall Street Journal Members Community applauded my opinions.

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank.