NEGOTIATIONS ARE TAKING place for talks between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Europeans are upbeat. “We very much hope that the phone call will take place as soon as possible,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told CNBC this week.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a supporter of the peace…
CHINA CALLED FOR an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine so that negotiations can begin for peace and rebuilding. It called for respect for sovereign borders – which seemed like advice to Russia to withdraw.
But it also called for respect given to security concerns – which seems like acknowledgement that the west should fulfil earlier…