2023-05-26 11:08:33
After visits to Kiev, Warsaw, Berlin and Paris, the former ambassador to Russia Li Hui lands in Moscow. The goal: to open a channel between the two countries in view of a compromise
Can Xi Jinping’s sincerity still be believed when he tells European leaders that China supports a peaceful solution to the crisis between Russia and Ukraine?
The Chinese special envoy for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, is expected today in Moscow: even if the title of his assignment doesn’t say so, the diplomat’s task is to explore the possibility of opening negotiations between Moscow and Kiev. Li Hui has just been to Kiev where he met President Volodymyr Zelensky, then to Warsaw, Berlin and Paris. The Ukrainian government repeated to the Chinese envoy that compromises on national sovereignty are not possible (so Kiev would like to recover all of its invaded territory).
Li Hui’s first task at the moment is not to convince the Ukrainians, but shore up the relationship between China and those European governments that are more willing to continue business as usual avoiding going the US line without objection. Therefore, Xi must keep alive the hypothesis of peace mediation also to give cover to the French Emmanuel Macron who visited him in Beijing taking considerable political risks.
The United States continues to spread skepticism, recalling that Xi has never condemned the aggression (performed by his bosom friend Vladimir Putin, whom he visited in March in the Kremlin). And then, everyone knows that Beijing refuses to use the term invasion, condemns Western sanctions, exhibits its axis with Russia in an anti-Western role, exploits the situation to do excellent business with the Russians. The latest proof that Xi is not neutral and impartial was the reception given on Wednesday in Beijing to Russian Prime Minister Misutshin, who was able to exalt the unprecedented level reached by political and trade relations. Xi comforted him by saying that China and Russia must staunchly support each other’s core interests.
Per, equally evident that precisely because of his proximity, Xi is the only one capable of pushing Putin on the path to negotiation. And there are some positive signs: Li Hui was ambassador to Moscow for ten years (until 2019), knows the dynamics of the Kremlin well, speaks Russian fluently and is considered a reliable friend. Suspicious Putin presumably fears no tricks from the Chinese mediator.
The diplomatic shuttle only in the first round: it is clear that results cannot be expected until the actual or presumed offensives and counter-offensives have taken place on the field. But meanwhile
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Li Hui’s task of opening a channel between Kiev and Moscow. While
Xi reports that China will not let Russia collapse and therefore the United States, Europe and Ukraine must seek a compromise to end the war.
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