World powers should focus on restoring peace and stability in Ukraine rather than seeking “selfish gains,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday.
The chancellor arrived in China on Sunday, accompanied by a large delegation of ministers and business executives.
Meeting with Scholz at Beijing’s Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Xi told the German leader that all parties should work together to restore peace in Ukraine as soon as possible. The Chinese leader also outlined four principles that he believes will prevent the conflict from escalating.
First, we should prioritize the upholding of peace and stability and refrain from seeking selfish gains,” Xi said, as quoted by the Xinhua news agency.
The next step, according to Xi, would be to stop “adding fuel to the fire,” which would enable conditions for the restoration of peace.
The Chinese leader also called for a reduction of the impact of the conflict on the global economy, and for parties to “refrain from undermining the stability of global industrial and supply chains.”
Scholz, whose three-day trip to China is the second since he took office in 2021, told Xi that he is willing to discuss “how we can contribute more to a just peace in Ukraine.” The ongoing crisis has affected Germany’s “core interests” and has disrupted energy supplies and global trade, the chancellor added.
According to Scholz, the hostilities have also had a negativ…
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Can peace proposals that come from countries with strong ties to one side of a conflict be trusted to be fair and unbiased?
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Trebaju li globalno gospodarstvo i stabilnost opskrbnog lanca utjecati na to kako zemlje rješavaju strane ratove i sukobe?
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Is it possible for a country to remain completely neutral in international conflicts, and what might motivate them to claim neutrality?
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Što mislite o ulozi ekonomskih interesa u odlukama koje zemlje donose o stranim sukobima?
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Vjerujete li da svjetske sile doista mogu ostaviti po strani vlastite interese kako bi postigle mir u zonama sukoba poput Ukrajine?