This view was expressed on October 19 during an online discussion of the Kiev Security Forum by John Herbst, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Center, US ambassador to Ukraine in 2003-2006. Event transmission on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Prime Minister in 2014-2016, the founder of the Open Ukraine Foundation Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
“As far as I understand, the Chinese president may regret his cooperation and meeting with Putin in early February and the broad statement on increased cooperation between Russia and China. Xi has tried to distance himself from the unacceptable behavior of Putin in Ukraine, attacks on civilian infrastructure. And so we saw a kind of Putin apology to Xi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit a few weeks ago, “Herbst said. “I think China has sent a message to Russia not to use nuclear weapons and is somehow trying to steer Putin in the right direction.”
According to the diplomat, Putin’s failure in the war against Ukraine has affected the situation between China and Taiwan.
“He [Си Цзиньпин] speaks very belligerently of Taiwan, but sees a failure in Ukraine with those American technologies that existed about 25-30 years ago, and in the case of Taiwan, everything will be completely different“concluded Herbst.
February 4, three weeks earlier large-scale invasion of Ukraineleaders of the Russian Federation and China held talks, after which made a joint statementopposing NATO expansion and Taiwan independence.
China ever since Russian attack on Ukraine it tries to maintain a neutral position, but does not directly condemn Moscow’s actions.
On September 30 at the meeting of the UN Security Council India, Gabon, China and Brazil abstained from voting for a resolution calling for not recognizing the Russian annexation of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
According to Western media, the United States wants to enlist support from China and Indiato increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and dissuade him from intending to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
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