{"id":70916,"date":"2022-02-24T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.palmografos.com\/?p=70916"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T10:36:00","slug":"vivvo-36216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/?p=70916","title":{"rendered":"China walks a fine line on Russia even after its invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Qin<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hua Chunying, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, sidestepped a question on Thursday about whether Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine violated the nation\u2019s sovereignty. Carlos Garcia Rawlins\/Reuters<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

China\u2019s government on Thursday sought to maintain its delicate balancing act on the Ukraine crisis, reiterating earlier calls for diplomacy even as Russia pressed forward with an attack on several areas of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0A spokeswoman for China\u2019s Foreign Ministry on Thursday declined at a regular news briefing to condemn Russia\u2019s actions, saying that the background of the Ukraine issue was \u201cvery complicated.\u201d The spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, did not describe the attack as an \u201cinvasion,\u201d calling that term \u201cpreconceived wording.\u201d And she sidestepped a question about whether the attack was a violation of Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than six hours after the attack began, the top article on the website of the official People\u2019s Daily newspaper was about Inner Mongolia\u2019s new commercial policy. And the website of the official Xinhua news agency led with an article about an upcoming meeting of China\u2019s rubber-stamp Parliament. (Chinese social media, however, was ablaze with discussions about the conflict.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0China\u2019s ambivalent position reflects the dilemma facing Beijing. On one hand, it has long enjoyed friendly relations with Ukraine and has held up the principle of noninterference in other countries\u2019 affairs. There are also concerns about further alienating the European Union and aggravating an already tense relationship with the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0On the other hand, China\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, recently declared a partnership with \u201cno limits\u201d with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Both share in the belief that the United States is determined to hobble the ascent of their countries. And they have signaled a desire to see a world order in which Washington\u2019s influence is far diminished.<\/span><\/p>\n

The strengthened bond between China and Russia was on display on Thursday when news reports emerged that China\u2019s customs agency had cleared the way for the import of wheat from all regions of Russia, instead of what had been only certain designated areas.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move was part of a series of agreements signed by Mr. Putin during a recent trip to Beijing. For Russia, the world\u2019s largest wheat exporter, China\u2019s huge domestic economy offers a potential bulwark against Western sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The closer ties were also apparent in the instructions that China\u2019s embassy in Ukraine issued to its citizens. Instead of urging people to evacuate, as other countries have done, the embassy told Chinese people on Thursday to stay at home and advised those traveling by car to display a Chinese flag in a prominent place on their vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amy Qin \u00a0 \u00a0 Hua Chunying, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, sidestepped a question on Thursday about whether Russia\u2019s attack on Ukraine violated the nation\u2019s sovereignty. Carlos Garcia Rawlins\/Reuters China\u2019s government on Thursday sought to maintain its delicate balancing act on the Ukraine crisis, reiterating earlier calls for diplomacy even as Russia pressed forward with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11543,8427,11542,11544,6788,75,7588,1226,7458,10464,364],"class_list":["post-70916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vivvo-category-11","tag-china","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-6788","tag-75","tag-7588","tag-1226","tag-7458","tag-10464","tag-364"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106799,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70916\/revisions\/106799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palmografos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}