(addendum to previous post)
China has led on the peace proposals and offered to help rebuild Ukraine once Russia withdraws.
People, join the dots. For all the anti NATO rhetoric, China wants a reliable BRI gateway into Europe and sees that being Ukraine. But it doesn’t see a Ukraine under Russian control being useful to the plan. They need Ukraine to have independence from Moscow; a second Belarus behind Putin’s new Iron Curtain is antithetical to their ambition.
Yeah, letting the ChiComs into Ukraine is a multi-level trap.