When Wang Yi was last in person at the Munich Security Conference, he was still Chinese foreign minister. He has since risen to become China’s top foreign policy maker.
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Munich At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, China’s top foreign politician and Politburo member Wang Yi announced a “position paper on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis”.
Although he did not go into specifics about the content, the announcement was met with great skepticism by European governments and experts given China’s pro-Russian stance in the Ukraine war.
“If China takes the UN charter seriously, which lays down the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-aggression against neighboring countries,” said a top European diplomat on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, then China could make “a significant contribution”. However, only if in the negotiation proposal “the aggressor and the attacked person are not put on the same level”.
In the federal government, too, one would fundamentally welcome China’s greater commitment to settling the Ukraine conflict. However, it is becoming clear time and again that this does not mean the role of a mediator, in which China repeatedly brings itself into play.
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