The Kremlin uses China's calls for peace negotiations with Ukraine to its interests - isw

China seeks to show itself as an independent mediator in a possible negotiation process. Meanwhile, the Kremlin regularly uses Beijing's peace plan to place responsibilities to the West. Russia uses China's calls for peace talks between it and Ukraine to make the West make concessions. This conclusion was reached by analysts of the American Institute for War Study (ISW) in the March 7 report.

Thus, on March 7, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China has repeated the call for negotiations and assured that Beijing "retains an objective and impartial position" on the war in Ukraine.

"This rhetoric is part of China's ancient efforts to declare itself as an independent mediator in the predictable desired negotiation process, and Russia will continue to use such calls to promote the usual information operations aimed at encouraging the West to make concessions," the institute said. Analysts recalled the meeting of the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Mikhail Galusin and the special representative of China on Eurasia Lee XIU on March 2 in Moscow.

They discussed China's desire to promote peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Guinozin and Lee noted that it was impossible to discuss the settlement in Ukraine without Russia's participation and without "taking into account the interests of Russia in the field of security", the statements that the Kremlin uses regularly to place responsibility for negotiations.

It should be reminded that on March 7, the lava of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak organized a briefing for China delegation, headed by a special representative of the China Government for Eurasia Lee Huey. Chinese delegations were shown fragments of rockets produced in the DPRK, which were transmitted by Russia and used by it for attacks on Ukraine.