Blinken Brushes Aside China's Peace Deal for Ukraine, Pushes for Endless War
The Ukraine War pushed China closer to Russia.
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held the Biden administration’s position that any peace plan for Ukraine backed by China must be bad as Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow.
Blinken insisted Monday that any peace deal backed by China would be nothing more than a “stalling tactic” to cement gains by Russians.
He said the Chinese plan must recognize the territorial integrity of Ukraine and involve Russian troops exiting the country.
“Any plan that does not prioritize this critical principle is a stalling tactic at best or is merely seeking to facilitate an unjust outcome. That is not constructive diplomacy,” Blinken said. “Calling for a ceasefire that does not include the removal of Russian forces from Ukrainian territory would effectively be supporting the ratification of Russian conquest.”
China’s proposal said the security of the region should not be achieved by “strengthening or expanding military blocs,” and warned against taking a “Cold War mentality.”
President Joe Biden told ABC News in an interview earlier this month that the “idea that China is going to be negotiating the outcome of a war that’s a totally unjust war for Ukraine is just not rational.”
“Putin’s applauding it, so how could it be any good?” Biden said. “I’ve seen nothing in the plan that would indicate that there is something that would be beneficial to anyone other than Russia, if the Chinese plan were followed.”
Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, took to Twitter and said any peace plan must include the restoration of Ukraine’s “sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.”
Blinken met briefly with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov earlier this month to repeat President Biden’s message that Washington is prepared to continue supporting Ukraine until it emerges victorious — which nobody seems to be able to define.
A senior State Department official told the BBC that the discussion lasted less than 10 minutes and Blinken said the U.S. will support Ukraine for “as long as it takes.”
Blinken “disabused” Lavrov of any idea that U.S. support for Ukraine is wavering, the official said.
Putin met with Xi in Moscow on Monday and the meeting spanned four and a half hours. Putin has told Xi that Russia is open to discussing Beijing’s peace proposals.
TRENDPOST: Lavrov addressed reporters after his brief meeting with Blinken during the G20 meeting in New Delhi, India.
Blinken called out Russia for invading Ukraine and said it was important that the world does not allow Moscow to get away with such an illegal land-grab. He repeated the line from Washington that other countries will undoubtedly follow Russia’s lead and attempt similar acts of aggression.
But Lavrov called out Blinken’s comment and said it was a “double standard” when the U.S. condemned Russia for the invasion after conducting military interventions in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and Kosovo.
“If you think that the United States has the right to declare any country in the world a threat to its national interests, the way it did with Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria—ten thousand kilometers away across the Atlantic Ocean, then you would not be asking any questions,” he said, according to Russia’s TASS. “Whereas Russia had issued warnings for more than 10 years (and not just once on the eve of the attack, as was the case in Iraq and other places): ‘Guys, what you are doing is going to end badly.’ We are not talking about some faraway place, but right on our borders, in territories where Russians have lived for centuries. In a word, if this is not what you call a double standard, then I am not foreign minister.”
Lavrov was asked the question on Friday at the international political science conference Raisina Dialogue at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi. He told the moderator that the G20 has been having similar conferences dating back to 2014.
“During those years, have you been interested in what’s happening in Iraq or Afghanistan? Did you ask the US and NATO any questions about whether they knew what they were doing?” he asked, according to the news outlet.
He mentioned how the Russian language and culture was banned in the Donbas.
“Can you imagine, for example, Ireland banning English, Belgium banning French, Switzerland banning German, or Finland abolishing Swedish? Of course not. But no one lifted a finger, when the Russian language was completely abolished in Ukraine,” he said.
Blinken also addressed the forum and said, “If we allow with impunity Russia to do what it’s doing in Ukraine, then that’s a message to would-be aggressors everywhere that they may be able to get away with it too.”
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