China is not interested in playing the role of mediator between Ukraine and Russia, and visits by either U.S. President Donald Trump or Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Beijing should not be expected to bring any meaningful progress toward ending the war.
Former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker said this on the sidelines of the GLOBSEC Forum in comments to Ukrinform.
"I would not put anything in this," he said.
According to Volker, China has not been interested in Russia's war against Ukraine from the beginning.
"They [Chinese] view it as Russia's war. They view it as a problem for Putin now. They didn't want him to do this, they didn't care if he does do it. It's not their thing. They're interested in their own interests in their own region. And they sell [various goods] to both sides, they buy energy if it's cheap. So they are not going to get more deeply involved here," he said.
