But, unlike the American side, nothing was mentioned in Beijing about Moscow's nuclear threats.
During today's meeting with the president US Joe Biden's Chinese leader Xi Jinping said he was “very alarmed by the current situation in Ukraine.” China “has always been on the side of peace and will continue to encourage peaceful negotiations”.
As CNN writes, this is stated in the message of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China based on the results of today's meeting of leaders in Indonesia before the G20 summit.
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“We support and look forward to the resumption of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. At the same time, we hope that the United States, NATO and the EU will conduct a comprehensive dialogue with Russia,” Xi Jinping told the American president, according to the text of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
The Chinese leader also listed the steps that the international community should take. , to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian crisis, and also emphasized that “confrontation between major powers must be avoided.” However, in the results of the Chinese side, one of the key points is missing, which is contained in the text of the White House, published after a three-hour conversation between the leaders of the United States and China.
The US document states that President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reiterated their agreement that a nuclear war is unwinnable and should never be started, “and also emphasized their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.” Washington's statement also says that Biden “raised the issue of Russia's brutal war against Ukraine and Russia's irresponsible threats to use nuclear weapons.”
The Chinese findings also state that Xi Jinping described his government's position on Taiwan to Biden. The New York Times writes that the Chinese leader called this issue “the core of China's core interests, the basis of the political foundations of Sino-US relations, and a red line that cannot be crossed in Sino-US relations.”
“We have always strived to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, but 'Taiwan independence' is as incompatible with peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait as fire and water,” Xi Jinping said, according to Chinese summaries.
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Previously, the professor of international relations at the People's University of China, Shi Yinghong, argued that the meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping will not change China's position on Russia war against Ukraine. According to the Chinese expert, Beijing has repeatedly made clear its attitude to the conflict. And it will not change “just because there was a conversation with the President of the United States”.
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In turn, Politico, citing sources in the White House, wrote that < strong>Biden plans to raise the issue of Ukraine at the talks with Xi Jinping. First, the American president wanted to try to convince the Chinese leader to increase the isolation of Russia's shaky war machine. And secondly, to warn that in case of Chinese aggression against Taiwan, the world will rally around Taipei in the same way as it did around Kyiv.
