{"id":54691,"date":"2023-04-27T21:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/xi-zelenskiy-call-analysis-ambassador-lu-shaye"},"modified":"2023-04-27T21:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:11:06","slug":"xi-zelenskiy-call-may-have-been-prompted-by-ambassadors-undiplomatic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54691","title":{"rendered":"Xi-Zelenskiy call may have been prompted by ambassador\u2019s undiplomatic comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese leader\u2019s surprise contact with his Ukrainian counterpart is suspected to be a corrective move<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/apr\/27\/russia-ukraine-war-live-russia-pounds-bakhmut-us-and-eu-welcome-chinas-call-with-zelenskiy\">Russia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A long-awaited phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been cautiously welcomed, but China analysts say the timing suggests it could be partly an act of damage control after controversial comments by China\u2019s ambassador to France.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Lu Shaye, one of China\u2019s \u201cwolf warrior\u201d diplomats with a history of fiery remarks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/china-rows-back-after-envoy-denies-sovereignty-of-former-soviet-states\">caused outrage across Europe<\/a> this week when he denied the sovereignty of former Soviet states, saying they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/23\/france-and-baltic-states-condemn-china-envoy-remarks-over-ukraine-sovereignty\">\u201cdid not have effective status\u201d<\/a>. The comments were roundly condemned, with several European nations summoning Chinese envoys for rebuke, and politicians suggesting it demonstrated China\u2019s untrustworthiness as a neutral party in the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/27\/xi-zelenskiy-call-analysis-ambassador-lu-shaye\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese leader\u2019s surprise contact with his Ukrainian counterpart is suspected to be a corrective moveRussia-Ukraine war \u2013 latest news updatesA long-awaited phone call between Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been cautiously welcomed, but Chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,221,419,930,2525,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-volodymyr-zelenskiy","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\/54691","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54692,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54691\/revisions\/54692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}