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Should the West cut China in [1]

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Date: 2023-04-04  

Zi Jinping in Russia

By The Editors March 29, 2023

Given Xi’s leverage over Putin, Chinese involvement will be necessary to reach any durable settlement in Ukraine. Even if the belligerents aren’t yet ready to sit down, outside powers should start considering how best to conduct eventual negotiations. One model might be the six-party talks over North Korea’s nuclear program, or the P5+1 grouping that oversaw the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Whatever its exact makeup, any such contact group would have to include both the US and China, as the leading backers of each side. Working together on Ukraine might even open a rare channel of communication between Washington and Beijing, and restore some stability to the rapidly cratering US-China relationship, including over the issue of Taiwan. Trying to stop one war may help the two rivals stave off another, more devastating conflict. That’s an opportunity both sides should welcome.

China is heavily promoting Xi’s peacemaking prowess. The West should embrace Xi’s commitment to peace and invite him to participate in multination peace initiatives with sound commitments to actions. China’s tact now is to fall back on the Iran-Saudi Arabia peace deal, which in reality is an Iraqi initiative to get itself out of the middle of the Iran-Saudi Arabia feud. Xi has no peace plan, there is nothing to implement in his 12 point plan, they are preference statements.

The constant back and forth on the quality of the plan is playing into Xi’s strategy to paint the US as a warmonger and weapons merchant. Once he gets the world's attention, he uses that interest to promote China’s export business and investment opportunities. The Iran-Saudi Arabia peace deal netted China a $3.6 billion deal to buy 10% of China’s Rongsheng Petrochemical, which would see it supply 480,000 barrels per day of crude oil to the company.

Since the beginning of 2023 China has held marathon economic development meetings with the heads of state from the far reaches of the planet. Tomorrow, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit China for three days. However, ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China, French pharmaceutical company Sanofi signed a partnership agreement with the Pingshan District government in Shenzhen.

Xi Jinping is a salesman, The only way to effectively expose China’s bait and switch on the Ukraine issue is to invite them in and focus the discussion on actionable items for peace in Ukraine.

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