A meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing should have been an opportunity for China to encourage Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine.
A meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing should have been an opportunity for China to encourage Russia to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine, the US State Department’s top diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said on Friday.
“The meeting should have provided China the opportunity to encourage Russia to pursue diplomacy and de-escalation in Ukraine.” Kritenbrink said. The China-Russia agreement marked the most detailed and assertive statement of Russian and Chinese resolve to work together – and against the United States – to build a new international order based on their own interpretations of human rights and democracy.
The joint statement is also strongly critical of US moves to stand up to China’s growing power in the Indo-Pacific region through the AUKUS pact, under which the United States and Britain plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines.
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