Will Xi play ball with Trump on Ukraine?
The Statesman Siliguri|December 19, 2024
President-elect Trump invited China's President Xi Jinping to his inauguration, potentially involving Beijing in Ukraine ceasefire negotiations.
STEFAN WOLFF AND TETYANA MALYARENKO

President-elect Donald Trump has invited China's president Xi Jinping to his inauguration on January 20 in a surprise move which appears to be part of a plan to involve Beijing in ceasefire negotiations in Ukraine.

Just after his recent meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskky in Paris, Trump posted, "There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin," and "China can help." That latter remark has suddenly gained more significance after Trump extended the unusual invitation for the foreign leader to attend the January 20 ceremony.

Leaving aside whether Xi will accept Trump's invitation to Washington DC (he probably won't), the more important question is whether he would indeed help Trump end the Russian war against Ukraine.

China has had a strong economic and trading relationship with Russia throughout the war, and has refrained from criticizing Putin. While it has denied providing Moscow with military assistance, reports suggest that China has allowed some goods that have battlefield use to be sent to Russia.

On the surface, Trump's initiative and what China has most recently put on the table with Brazil look like two reasonably well-aligned peace proposals.

Both call for a ceasefire along the current frontlines, followed by negotiations on a permanent settlement. Both seem to accept Russia's demand to freeze the territorial status quo, which would mean Ukraine would lose the near-20 per cent of its territory that Moscow's forces have illegally occupied since 2014.

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