In the war that has been raging in Ukraine since February 24, 2022, any appeasement is good to take, and the restart of the relationship between Beijing and Kyiv is, in itself, a positive development.
The first phone call since the start of the conflict between Volodymyr Zelensky and Xi Jinping, made at the initiative of the Ukrainian president, was
"one of the objectives of Emmanuel Macron's trip to China"
, it is underlined. Elysium.
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Other European heads of state had, like the French president, urged the Chinese number one to get closer to kyiv.
But it is also perhaps, underline the specialists of China, the recent slippage of the Chinese ambassador in Paris, Lu Shaye, who had called into question the sovereignty of the former Soviet republics as well as the Ukrainian character of Crimea, who precipitated the initiative.
This symbolic gesture would thus have been intended to reassure Europeans.
Ukraine was until then the elephant in the room of Chinese diplomacy, while…
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