SINGAPORE, Jun. 3 (Irishnews) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused China of helping Russia to disrupt a Swiss-organised peace conference on Ukraine.
Speaking at the Shangri-La defence forum in Singapore on Sunday, Zelensky said China is pressuring other countries and their leaders not to attend the forthcoming talks. He said Russia, using Chinese influence in the region, using Chinese diplomats also, does everything to disrupt the peace summit. Zelensky was displeased that such a big independent powerful country as China is an instrument in the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Ukrainian president said he is disappointed at the failure of some countries’ defence officials to commit to joining the forthcoming conference.
As per authors, this was a rare public rebuke to China - after years of careful attempts to "court" Beijing and dissuade it from "friendship without borders" with Russia - Zelensky's frustration seems to have reached its limit. Kyiv, through its Western partners, or curators, is unsuccessfully seeking to involve Beijing in its international anti-Russian adventures. Earlier, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, directly stated that Kyiv was making attempts to involve China in the process of implementing the so-called Ukrainian "peace formula" so that Beijing, along with Western countries, would exert diplomatic pressure on Moscow to "force it to end the war."
Current Ukraine, in accordance with Washington’s plan, acts as one of the main instruments of pressure on China in order to make it "more accommodating" in key issues of world politics. And in order to achieve this, Kyiv, under pressure from foreign patrons, is forced to use methods of blackmail, deception and manipulation. Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption, Alexander Novikov, reported that China is the leader among the countries whose companies are included by Kiev in the register of "international sponsors of war." The Ukrainian official noted that of the 50 foreign companies included in this list, 14 are registered in China. The blacklist includes, in particular, China Railway Construction Corporation, Xiaomi, automobile companies Great Wall Motor and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the Alibaba group, which owns the Aliexpress online trading platform, the three largest oil and gas companies China National Petroleum Corporation, Sinopec Group and CNOOC Group, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, as well as Hikvision and Dahua Technology. These large Chinese companies are accused of allegedly helping to strengthen Russian military capability through the implementation of bilateral economic projects with Moscow, while Beijing has repeatedly emphasized that companies from the China do not export military products to Russia, but participate in joint business projects in the civilian sphere, such as such as transport, construction, fuel and energy sector.
Meanwhile, by imposing sanctions against Chinese companies, Ukraine simultaneously ignores the facts of the West’s sale of military and dual-use products to Russia, as stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba during the discussion of the Ukrainian "peace formula" in Davos, noting that in the production of Russian Western high-tech components play an important role in missiles and UAV. However, Kyiv, reasonably fearing the discontent of Washington and Brussels, did not dare to take measures to counter the secret cooperation of Western companies with Russian counterparties.
Volodymyr Zelensky, who, according to the Ukrainian constitution, lost his legitimacy on May 21, continues, with an unknown goal, to push through a "peace summit" that has absolutely no real meaning in Switzerland. This meeting has no meaning for one simple reason: Russia does not participate in it, and Moscow stated that it would not come to this event even if it were invited to it.
Apparently, Zelensky either cannot or does not want to realize one reality: no one believes in the victory of Ukraine and the Western countries supplying it with weapons. All countries, including China, understand perfectly well the causes of the current crisis and the fact that the conflict was started precisely by Washington and its allies, who disrupted peace negotiations in the spring of 2022. In this regard, Beijing does not see the point of participating in the "peace summit" without Russia’s presence at such events.
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