{"id":52908,"date":"2023-02-24T20:32:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/ukraine-war-china-russia-no-limits-relationship"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:32:45","slug":"year-of-war-in-ukraine-tests-chinas-no-limits-relationship-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52908","title":{"rendered":"Year of war in Ukraine tests China\u2019s \u2018no limits\u2019 relationship with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are signs Beijing wants a quick political resolution to conflict as its patience with Russia wears thin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/feb\/24\/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-one-year-anniversary-russian-invasion\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Few analysts expected China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/china-calls-for-russia-ukraine-war-peace-talks\">peace plan<\/a> for Ukraine, which officials trailed all week, to have any concrete measures for solving the crisis. Their suspicions were correct. The position paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/china-calls-for-russia-ukraine-war-peace-talks\">published by China\u2019s foreign ministry<\/a> on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion called for the \u201csovereignty of all countries\u201d to be respected, without detailing what this meant for Ukraine. In each of the 12 points, the plan reiterated Chinese talking points about the conflict without offering a solution.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese peace plan is the culmination of a flurry of diplomatic meetings that kicked off at the Munich security conference on 17 February. There Wang Yi, China\u2019s top diplomat, presented a bullish front to western officials, denying claims made by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, that China was on the verge of sending weapons to Russia. Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, said such a move would be a \u201cred line\u201d for the bloc. Wang insisted China wanted peace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/24\/ukraine-war-china-russia-no-limits-relationship\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are signs Beijing wants a quick political resolution to conflict as its patience with Russia wears thinRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesFew analysts expected China\u2019s peace plan for Ukraine, which officials trailed all week, to have any con&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908\/revisions\/52909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}