Xi Jinping to send Chinese peace talks delegation to Ukraine

[jgo]

Source: The Guardian

The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will send a delegation to Ukraine to hold talks with all parties on resolving the conflict there, after his first phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, since Russia invaded in February 2022.

Xi also appeared to pledge China would remain neutral in the conflict, saying Beijing “will neither watch the fire from the other side, nor add fuel to the fire, let alone take advantage of the crisis to profit”, according to CCTV.

Zelenskiy described the phone call, said by aides to be almost an hour, as “long and meaningful” and said the two had discussed “possible cooperation to reach a fair and sustainable peace”.

But he insisted Ukraine would not give up on lost territory: “There can be no peace at the expense of territorial compromises. The territorial integrity of Ukraine must be restored within the 1991 borders,” he said in readout of the call on Telegram.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/26/chinese-president-xi-jinping-to-send-peace-talks-delegation-to-ukraine

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. I wouldn't believe anything one of Winnie the Flu's wolf warrior two faced liars said

Zelenskyy better realize Xi would sell him out in a second. Never trust the CCP.

[ShazzieB]

6. Zelenskyy is nobody's fool.

At least he doesn't strike me that way. I'm not too worried about him bring taken in by Xi.

Being willing to meet with a Chinese delegation doesn't necessarily mean he trusts them or will take their word for anything important.

[oldsoftie]

10. Maybe send Xi some videos of all the civilian deaths & mass graves & dead Russians.

Although that might excite Xi more than turn him off.

[cstanleytech]

7. "Winnie the Flu"??? Really?

[padah513]

8. IKR?

[AZLD4Candidate]

18. I live in China. I've called him Emperor Xi the Flawless and The Fat Panda too

My CHINESE wife calls him worse than I do.

[oldsoftie]

9. "Winnie the Flu"! Hahahahahahahahhahahahaha

That'll stick with me!
And too many people ignore just what the CCP actually IS.

[cstanleytech]

13. To be honest I found it as funny as "Kung Flu" which I didn't find it to be.

[oldsoftie]

15. Different strokes. I think its hilarious. And Xi is fine fodder to be made fun of.

[AZLD4Candidate]

19. YOu don't live in China and lived under his crap. I do and I have.

And I'm glad you're not the arbiter of jokes. George Carlin had an entire routine on rape.

[cstanleytech]

20. I never claimed to be an arbitrator I simply said I don't find it amusing as others do.

[AZLD4Candidate]

21. So you come up with a good nickname for that brutal, authoritarian asshat.

[cstanleytech]

22. How about asshole?

[AZLD4Candidate]

24. Could apply to anyone. Not really original.

I'll stick to winnie the flu. It makes fun of him banning Winnie the Pooh and his COVID bullshit.

[SunSeeker]

2. "The territorial integrity of Ukraine must be restored within the 1991 borders."

Suck it, Putin.

[Tetrachloride]

3. China must return to 1949 borders.

[Warpy]

4. Maybe he should send them to Russia, instead.

Somebody needs to slap some sense into Putin.

My best guess says Xi's delegation will be looking for deals to rebuild the country. Ukrainians better watch their food stamps.

[PortTack]

5. Beat me to it...russia is the one that single handedly brought this war

[Irish_Dem]

11. China is only interested in peace and concerned about the humanitarian aspects of the war.

Sure.

[Irish_Dem]

12. China helps Russia with this war and then pretends to be the peacemaker.

[Tom Rinaldo]

14. It's a whole lot better than Xi annnouncing a major arms package for Russia would be

Putin wants and needs China firmly on his side. The fact that China is still holding back its full scale support is significant. China is on Putin's side, undoubtedly, but is not all in for Russia, the same way the U.S. is for Ukraine. If China continues to hedge its bet on Putin, that ultimately is favorable to Ukraine.

[oldsoftie]

16. Yes, that IS a positive. It could be far worse.

Imagine if China Was sending arms at the rate the West is. Even though many of the Russian troops are poorly trained on USING those weapons.

[Dontwa]

17. interesting

Peace would be nice but all sides must agree.

[RussBLib]

23. Welcome to DU!

Peace is coming to Ukraine. Just hope it happens before millions are killed.