Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the G20 meeting held in South Africa on February 20, 2025.
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China is supporting U.S. President Donald Trump to reach a deal with Russia at a community meeting in South Africa on Thursday to end the war in Ukraine, while U.S. allies are in Ukrainian President Vorodimir Volodymyr Zelenskyy sieges.
Trump, less than a month after taking office as president, raised a campaign on war policy, called Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin , and talks were held between senior U.S. officials and senior Ukrainian officials.
Trump then condemned Zelenskyy as a “dictator” on Wednesday, prompting a statement of support for Ukrainian presidents of G20 members, including Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom.
According to a statement from his ministry, Wang Yi told the Recent Consensus between the United States and Russia that China supports all efforts to peace, including the recent consensus. ”
He added: “China is willing to continue to play a constructive role in the political solution of the crisis.”
The King did not reiterate his view at the Munich Security Conference last Friday that all stakeholders in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict should participate in any peace negotiations.
Beijing wants to ensure any deal Trump attempts to strike with the Kremlin to prevent the current diplomatic part from falling off Russia under its influence, and because its ties with Russia provide China with “European officials” analysts say freeze Any negotiation.
“By going directly to Putin, President Trump eliminated what Beijing hoped might be the initial leverage,” said Ruby Osman, a Chinese expert at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
“Instead, China may turn its attention to discussing China’s role in eventual reconstruction and maintenance, which will give Beijing a greater vested interest in European secure buildings,” she added.
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it had agreed to hold more talks with Russia to end the conflict in nearly three years after a 4-1/2 hour meeting in Saudi Arabia.
Russia said the talks were useful but made demands, especially insisting that it would not tolerate membership granted to Ukraine by the NATO coalition.
