China's "ni-ni" in the Ukrainian crisis

At the UN, China calls on all parties to exercise restraint over Ukraine and Beijing refuses to take sides in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

AP - Andy Wong

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At the UN, China urges all parties to exercise restraint on Ukraine.

Beijing refuses to take sides in the conflict, same thing, during the interview this Tuesday between the American secretary of state and the Chinese minister of Foreign Affairs.

Chinese diplomacy remains on its line: neither approval nor condemnation of Russia.

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With our correspondent in Beijing

,

The

has not changed since the joint statement issued on the occasion of Vladimir Putin's visit to China earlier this month.

If Beijing shares Russian concerns and supports Moscow in its opposition to " 

 " in Eastern Europe, if the Ukrainian question weakens the American Asian pivot in Asia, the Chinese leaders have so far and at no moment supported the idea of ​​a military intervention in Ukraine.

This "ni-ni" is widely taken up today by the official press, in particular by the

agency, which did not forget to put quotation marks in its dispatch concerning the " 

”.

The

for his part evokes " 

 ", insisting on the " 

", in particular that of the UN Secretary General calling for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the compliance with the Minsk agreements and the Chinese embassy in Kiev, which in

this morning called on its nationals to listen to the instructions for caution, not to go to " 

 " and to stock up on food and drinking water.

A subject widely discussed on Chinese social networks

A wait-and-see position shared on social networks where Moscow's intervention was the second most commented subject at the start of the day on the Weibo network, with Internet users relaying the official words and the criticism of "

 ", while others

between " 

" around the division of Mongolia and the current Sino-Russian border which could evolve in the days or weeks to come .

What happens in

is indeed likely to determine the vision that Chinese power has of its place and role in the world in the years to come.

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