{"id":52743,"date":"2023-02-19T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/chinese-peace-plan-for-ukraine-greeted-cautiously-by-the-west"},"modified":"2023-02-19T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T20:00:06","slug":"chinese-peace-plan-for-ukraine-greeted-cautiously-by-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52743","title":{"rendered":"Chinese peace plan for Ukraine greeted cautiously by the west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s senior diplomat Wang Yi speaks of need to uphold principle of territorial integrity but also of respecting Russia\u2019s \u2018legitimate security interests\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/w%0Aorld\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Western leaders have reacted nervously to a Chinese peace plan for Ukraine due to be revealed this week, but cautiously welcomed the move as a first sign that China recognises the war cannot be regarded solely as a European affair.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/17\/zelenskiy-ukraine-munich-summit-russian-offensive\" title=\"\">Munich Security Conference<\/a>, China\u2019s senior diplomat Wang Yi, one of the few external politicians able to influence Russia, announced that China would launch its peace initiative on the anniversary of the war, and has already been consulting Germany, Italy and France on its proposals. He said the peace plan would underscore the need to uphold the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the UN Charter. But at the same time he said the legitimate security interests of Russia needed to be respected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/18\/chinese-peace-plan-for-ukraine-greeted-cautiously-by-the-west\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s senior diplomat Wang Yi speaks of need to uphold principle of territorial integrity but also of respecting Russia\u2019s \u2018legitimate security interests\u2019Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesWestern leaders have reacted nervously to a Chinese peace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,319,4,419,930,45,83,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-us-foreign-policy","category-war-crimes","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52743\/revisions\/52744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}