China's Xi Jinping lands in Moscow to strengthen ties with Russian leader Vladimir Putin while seeking possible steps towards peace in Ukraine.
that the two countries have"cemented political mutual trust and fostered a new model of major-country relations."
Rana Mitter, a professor of Chinese history and politics at the University of Oxford, says China may hope the Moscow trip will help persuade some in Europe"to take a more America-skeptic position on questions of security and economic cooperation." She said, with Xi visiting Moscow,"they know that there will be these critical questions on China, about what China plans to do on the war in Ukraine. I think that political position [paper] and the framing of China as a peace broker is to serve that political purpose."China's role as a mediator in the past suggests limits to what it may achieve when it comes to Ukraine.
"Whether they'll play an active role in ending the Ukraine conflict, I think, is probably something that we will not see here in the near term," Haenle said.
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