Chinese President Xi Jinping asks for ‘maximum restraint in Ukraine.
This is the strongest statement from Chinese President Xi Jinping about the Ukraine crisis. He called for “maximum restraint” and said that China was “painful” to see the flames of war again in Europe.
As part of a virtual meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Olaf Scholz, Xi said that the three countries should support peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Xi said the situation in Ukraine was “worrying” and that the most important thing was to keep it from getting worse or “spinning out of control,” according to CCTV.
He also said that France and Germany should try to lessen the negative effects of the crisis.
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He was worried about how sanctions would affect global finance, energy supplies, transportation, and supply chains and how they would affect the stability of the world.
China, which hasn’t called Russia’s actions in Ukraine an invasion or condemned them, has often said that it doesn’t like what it calls illegal sanctions on Russia.
When Vladimir Putin came to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics last month, it strengthened China’s friendship with Russia even more.
But as the war in Ukraine grows, it’s become more awkward for China to be friends with Russia.
Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation.” It wants to disarm its neighbor and eliminate leaders it calls neo-Nazis.
Ukraine and its Western allies say this is a pretext for an invasion to take over a country with 44 million people, which they say is not true.
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