ANALYSIS: Xi Jinping received a red-carpet welcome in Moscow, but the US accused him of providing diplomatic cover to Vladimir Putin to commit atrocities in Ukraine.
either under the guise of a peace plan, or worse, provide it direct military support for the conflict.Other observers see the performance more as a symbolic visit to promote the Chinese Communist Party’s desire to portray Xi as a global statesman and attempt to weaken the United States’ role in the world order.Still, Putin made it clear in televised remarks as the two men sat down shortly after Xi’s red-carpet arrival that he was open to discussing China’s proposed Ukraine peace plan.
“That President Xi is travelling to Russia days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin suggests that China feels no responsibility to hold the Kremlin accountable for the atrocities committed in Ukraine,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in response to the visit.
“China is seeking to shape the world around it in a way that we’ve not seen it do prior to the last decade,” Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday.
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