Posted on 08/06/2023 1:15:07 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
China's decision to join international talks in Saudi Arabia over the weekend seeking to end Russia's war in Ukraine signals possible shifts in Beijing's approach but not a U-turn in its support for Moscow, analysts say. While Beijing declined to join earlier talks in NATO member Denmark, analysts said it feels far more comfortable joining the effort in Saudi Arabia, even if Russia is not present and Ukraine is pushing its own plan.
China has refused to condemn Moscow for the invasion it launched in February 2022 but has offered its own peace plan and Beijing appears to be confronting some hard realities as the conflict drags on.
"Beijing has been gearing more toward peace efforts but it also knows that a peace initiative led by Beijing is unlikely to be embraced by the West at this point," said Yun Sun, a director of the China program at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington.
"Beijing will not want to be absent from other credible peace initiatives that are led by non-Western countries."
Peace envoy Li Hui was joining senior officials from some 40 countries in Jeddah, China's foreign ministry said on Friday, for talks that Ukrainian and Western envoys hope will forge key principles for an eventual settlement to end the war.
Beijing's latest move on the global diplomatic stage comes as President Xi Jinping grapples with a host of internal issues, including the unexplained replacement last month of Qin Gang as foreign minister, the abrupt replacement of the top brass at the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force and deepening woes for the world's second-biggest economy.
China has been courting oil giant Saudi Arabia, which is part of the non-aligned Global South, which China is keen to lead.
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Basically no one takes the US seriously anymore. Can’t say I blame them.
Putin’s gone under the bus. That part of the world is moving on.
The, " 'Beijing has been gearing more toward peace efforts but it also knows that a peace initiative led by Beijing is unlikely to be embraced by the West at this point,' said Yun Sun, a director of the China program at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington."
There is no question there will be a peace plan. There have been plenty of them. There is also no question that this war will one day end in favor of one side, or the other. Time will tell. Changing narratives won't.
The final peace plan will be brokered by Saudi Arabia.
No one takes Russia seriously any more.
Except for China, North Korea, Cuba, Belarus, Venezuela, Nicaragua and IRAN.
They all happen to be the planets last Communist nations by the way..., except for Iran. Iran is an Islamic State wanting the death of America the “great Satan”, and the death our greatest ally in the region : Israel.
You might be correct. You might also be incorrect. Time will tell. I so hesitate to foretell -- that word variant to "tell" -- because it seems the Delphic oracle game of the day. From climate change to coming pandemics to economic issues. Based on past examples of telling the future, I am reticent to foretell. In this I am sure we disagree.
It is an Asian problem, Let Asians solve it.
I never accepted Europe as not being Asia.
using the Urals as a border line was an invention of some Englishman.
India.
Kazahkstan. UAE. Venezuela.
Communism isn’t the common denominator. Isms are defined by that substance called money created from nothingness by central banks.
Rather, places with actual wealth. Oil. Uranium. Dollars created whimsically are less impressive than millions of barrels/day.
Thanks for the fake hopium
More speculation. Seems most news reports these days are predictions of the future.
"Dollars created whimsically are less impressive than millions of barrels/day."
Crystal ball reading used to be confined to carnivals... now the bedrock of MSM news outlets.
Obomao
Byedumb
Reduced this country
To a plo - hamas Kenya - somalia
That's just not fair. You peeked! :)
You forgot Africa and others.
Israel isn’t an ally as far as I am concerned, and you are not part of “our”.
You’re a foreigner.
Crystal ball reading used to be confined to carnivals... now the bedrock of MSM news outlets.
Post of the week.
Algeria, Niger, Argentina, UAE, South Africa, Botswana, Burkino Fasa, Nigeria, India, Brazil, Angola, Mexico, Egypt, Bahrain, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Bolivia, Chad, Libya, Turkey,
Syria, Serbia, Kenya, and Namibia.
Hope this helps. Russia has a lot of friends besides the ones you mentioned.
Thanks - I’ll make it a tag...
WRONG.
Most of those you countries you mentioned are non-aligned.
They are not in alliance specifically with Russia at all!
And you mentioned Turkey. A NATO member!
You have been misinformed, obviously.
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