{"id":57491,"date":"2023-08-12T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/11\/china-ukraine-peace-talks-saudi-arabia-russia"},"modified":"2023-08-12T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:56:10","slug":"china-has-its-own-reasons-for-being-at-ukraine-peace-talks-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57491","title":{"rendered":"China has its own reasons for being at Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering in Jeddah offers Beijing chance to placate global south and limit damage with west over Russia relations<\/p>\n<p>When the Chinese envoy Li Hui arrived in Saudi Arabia, to join international talks on a peace deal for Ukraine this week, it was a pointed contrast with Beijing\u2019s decision to skip a similar forum in Copenhagen in June.<\/p>\n<p>At the summit, which excluded Russia, Ukraine\u2019s leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy promoted his vision for ending the war to a large gathering of countries from the global south.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/11\/china-ukraine-peace-talks-saudi-arabia-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering in Jeddah offers Beijing chance to placate global south and limit damage with west over Russia relationsWhen the Chinese envoy Li Hui arrived in Saudi Arabia, to join international talks on a peace deal for Ukraine this week, it was a pointed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[41,50,221,212,419,398,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-ukraine","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\/57491","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57492,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57491\/revisions\/57492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}