The “peace plan” proposed by China to resolve the conflict in Ukraine is a purely formal gesture designed to demonstrate Beijing’s concern about what is happening.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy Fyodor Lukyanov said this on air on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The greatest peace plans are not written to settle something, but to be written, to be the center of discussion, and without risking anything. Chinese diplomacy has been extremely successful in this genre and has learned to do it.
The Chinese peace initiative, it’s not even called a plan, is a brilliant example of this. If you look from the point of view of the achieved result, China has shown responsibility from the point of view of a great power, which cannot be indifferent to such events. Showed it.
China said that it is not good for everyone to behave this way, because we need to live differently. China has attracted everyone's attention, and for a week and a half everyone has been discussing this.
The goal has been achieved. There was no goal to get involved in this conflict and start doing something. Because if you start getting involved in all this, there are already risks of some material costs, and a risk of reputation. But they categorically do not want this,” Lukyanov said.
According to him, China does not consider Russia its ally, but Beijing understands that it should be on the same side with Moscow.
“China is not an ally of Russia, because such a concept is not characteristic of China. China is not an ally with anyone, ever. I recently spoke with a prominent Chinese international affairs official about this very topic.
He said that China has one example of an alliance, an alliance, with the Soviet Union in the fifties. It ended, from their point of view, very badly. So no more.
But at the same time, he constantly used the word “bloc” when talking about China and Russia. By bloc, many in China mean that objectively we are on the same side. The US perceives China solely as an adversary, and this will not change. China has already understood this, and they are not and will not be offered any options for the coming years and decades,” Lukyanov concluded.