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China Tries to Play the Role of Peacemaker in Ukraine

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    • 88:88
      Pete Hegseth
      We also face a peer competitor in the Communist Chinese with the capability and intent to threaten our homeland and core national interests in the Indo-Pacific,
      CNN
      Hegseth said
    • 88:88
      Joe Biden
      Out-competing China and constraining Russia."
      The Manila Times
      With trade sanctions and over $100 billion in firepower and funds for Ukrainian forces from the Washington-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), America under Biden sought to "weaken" Russia under the top global priority in his 2022 National Security Strategy
    • 88:88
      China focuses on building a coalition of non-Western nations, including influential developing countries like Brazil, to leverage the Ukraine conflict toward reshaping global security architecture and advancing an alternative vision of world order,
      CNN
      said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the US
    • 88:88
      The real outcome that Beijing would like to avoid is a very much weakened Russia,
      CNN
      said Chong Ja Ian, an associate professor at the National University of Singapore
    • 88:88
      Hopefully, China can help us stop the war with, in particular, Russia-Ukraine … they have a great deal of power over that situation, and we’ll work with them,
      CNN
      Trump told political and business elites gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month
    • 88:88
      Can China threaten to cut off the supply (of essential goods to Russia)? It can’t, because China cannot afford a completely failed Russia,
      CNN
      said Liu Dongshu, an assistant professor focusing on Chinese politics at the City University of Hong Kong
    • 88:88
      Cecilia Chiang
      Given the stakes on US-China relations, if Trump prices China’s cooperation as the one critical issue that could improve US-China relations, I think China will be very tempted … (and could) play a helpful role,
      CNN
      said Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center think tank in Washington
    • 88:88
      Robert Ward (composer)
      You can see how each could take something from (certain peace deals) – Putin can save face, Xi and Trump can claim to be peacemakers,
      CNN
      said Robert Ward, director of geo-economics and strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Britain