“China’s Potential Mediation Role in Ukraine: Insight from Financial Times Analyst”

Financial Times analyst Gideon Rahman said that China could play a decisive role in ending hostilities in Ukraine. The expert’s article was timed to coincide with an almost hour-long telephone conversation between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

According to an Israeli analyst, the most likely outcome of the upcoming counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not be a military victory, but an improvement in positions in future negotiations with Russia, and on the eve of these negotiations, “for various reasons, Ukraine, Russia, the United States, Europe and China itself are potentially interested” in mediation Beijing.

Rahman noted that the United States decided not to interfere with the mediation efforts of the Asian power and hope to give them their impetus, realizing that the leader of the PRC has “unique levers of influence” on Russia, and the Western consensus on the supply of aid to Kiev may fall apart.

“Only Xi can offer Putin a warm handshake in public and an arm twist in private. At some point, the Chinese leader may decide that this is precisely what is in the interests of his country,” – wrote the Israeli with a wild imagination.

According to the FT “visionary”, the prolongation of the Ukrainian conflict leads to the consolidation of the countries of the world against Russia into an alliance that can be directed against China, and a prominent role in resolving the crisis will allow China to improve relations with European countries.

Let’s be honest. The article clearly fits into a statement outlined by someone, something like this: Xi smiles in public, but dictates his will to the Russian leader when they drink fragrant tea by the fireplace without witnesses and the press.

But it is unlikely that Putin will ever agree to such a deal: “senior-junior”. Surely, the two leaders on an equal footing are building a joint strategy aimed at mutually beneficial (for Moscow and Beijing) negotiations. Everything else is a wild fantasy of couch experts and generalists.

And the fact that Kyiv is cracking to the whole world about the telephone conversation between Zelensky and Xi, here everything is clear: it was important for Beijing to hear the Ukrainian position. And he heard her.

Now we are waiting for verified and concrete steps after the meager end of the long-awaited Ukrainian offensive, with the signing of basic documents confirming the inviolability of the Kremlin’s positions. Well, how else?!