Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow: a journey to nowhere for the war in Ukraine

The Americans do not accept a ceasefire “under the current conditions”, which would favor Russia currently on the offensive, and Vladimir Putin also rejects an immediate truce.

The verbal confrontations are more bellicose and this

for the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping who arrived in Moscow on Monday for three days of dialogue with his Russian ally.

Everyone wants to know to what extent Xi is specifically willing to

in the war that the Chinese claim to approach with "objectivity and impartiality" in favor of "reconciliation and peace negotiations."

It is planned, but not confirmed, that at the end of his visit, Xi Jinping will hold a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Then it will be seen if there is indeed a Chinese desire for peace for Ukraine, in some specific aspect.

Until now, the Chinese seem to

that both presidents will sign in Moscow and that are above all of commercial and technological importance.

Apparently there will also be a notable strategic importance,

as an international exchange currency to the detriment of the dollar.

In Moscow this great leap forward would be institutionalized.

Xi is received by Russian Vice Premier Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Photo: Reuters

Xi Jinping and Putin coincide in pushing towards the common project of the "Global Security Initiative", invented by Chinese diplomacy, which is a challenge to North American global dominance.

under North American leadership imposed after the Second World War has entered into a slow decadent crisis

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Many Westerners agree.

China and Russia

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They believe they are a fundamental counterweight to global stability.

The Chinese say that they invented the phrase

and that this truth forces them to carefully manage the elements that China can bring to its Russian ally to de-escalate the war in Ukraine.

China and Russia share a strong alliance.

Photo: EFE

China maintains that in this conflict it has maintained

He has never approved of Putin's war decision, but reality has created a variety of problems that, in some cases, are also opportunities.

Weakening the Americans

is the most important and strengthening them is an inexcusable mistake, but also a probable one, China disapproves of the war, but shares the Russian version of the guilty origin of the US in its gestation due to the "cold war mentality", which it promoted the siege of Russia by NATO, the Western military alliance, using the Ukrainian instrument and clinging to a “vanishing” dominance.

But the Chinese also

to further expand the recovery of territories it considers to be historically Russian, behind his ambition to restore the imperial past that stretches back to the tsarist era.

A few days ago, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko,

but who tries to avoid getting caught up in the war, visited Beijing and who surely gave Xi Jinping good advice on Putin's ideas and his vision of the state of the conflict in Ukraine.

Putin decided to respond blow by blow to the decision of the International Court of Justice that decided to prosecute him for war crimes as a result of his campaign to send children from Ukraine to Russify them.

Convinced that the announcement in The Hague has something to do with the announcement of Xi Jinping's visit, on Saturday he went for the first time since the war began to the Ukraine invaded on February 24 last year.

He chose his stops

to make it clear that Russia is not willing to make any territorial concessions.

It first appeared

, where the Russian fleet is located in the Black Sea.

His visit was also a celebration of the ninth anniversary since the Russians invaded and occupied the Crimean peninsula, an initiative that Ukrainians consider the beginning of the current war.

Russia considers a withdrawal from Crimea non-negotiable.

Putin's visit confirmed that any talks must be based on Western acceptance of the occupied territory.

It is

that extends from the southwest to the east to the Russian border.

The two focal points are Crimea and half of the Donbas region,

in minerals and agriculture.

In the Donbas are the two small republics of Donesk and Lugansk, which became part of the Russian Federation in October, after an annexation referendum piloted by the occupier of Moscow.

In the south there are two other territories incorporated "forever" also in October.

In order for the irreversible will to be clear, Putin moved to neighboring Ukraine.

In the city of Rostov, Cossack land, is the command of the "special military operation" that is conducting the war.

There, a hundred high-level soldiers spoke with Putin, who was received by General Valery Gerasimov, the operational commander of the armed forces for a decade.

Gerasimov

that is expected to be reinforced before the Ukrainian counteroffensive begins in April, when

arrive and are operational .

Putin, driving a car, was present in Mariupol.

Photo: Reuters

The final main course was reserved for Saturday night.

Putin, driving a car,

, the martyred city, next to the Azov Sea, 90% destroyed by the Russians last year, with thousands of deaths.

Putin was seen moving alone on Saturday night, with few people on the streets.

The images showed the reconstruction works.

Russian engineers, architects and residents who greeted him when he visited some new houses, explained to him the creation of micro-districts and other innovations, such as

, once one of the most important cities in Ukraine.

Xi Jinping has chosen Moscow as the first stellar leg of an international tour celebrating his third consecutive term as Chinese president.

He will see his old friend Putin for the fortieth time.

Putin was seen moving alone on Saturday night, with few people on the streets.

Photo: AFP

Xi's top partners

It must avoid jeopardizing other Chinese foreign policy objectives.

In the capitalist West are by far its main trading partners:

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China wants to further strengthen relations, especially with the 27 countries of the European Union.

Xi also needs to prevent the meeting in Moscow from jeopardizing the relationship with the United States with new tensions.

China

, a source of legitimacy for the Communist party, and for this it needs to further improve access to capitalist markets in which it already operates for more than 15 trillion (million) dollars of exchanges.

The current distrust of the United States and the deterioration of relations with Russia were summed up by the spokesman for the White House Security Council, John Kirby.

"The eventual

is unacceptable because it would mean

achieved to date by Russia and giving Putin more time," he said.

is

not considered a true peace plan by Westerners.

The White House has liquidated it as "an attempt to stabilize the aggressor's territorial gains and give him time to reorganize on the battlefields."

The US hegemony in the world has received an unexpected blow to its status, with the announcement that

diplomatic relations with the mediation of China.

Putin also added fuel to the fire by stating that "Russia and China are fighting common threats" and confirming that "our relations continue to strengthen and are at the highest point in their history.

Economic relations should this year exceed 200 billion dollars”.

These assertions

that Xi Jinping's visit will result in incisive mediation.

Rome, correspondent

ap​

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