China Requests Ceasefire In Ukraine During ‘CBS Sunday’ Interview

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During an appearance on CBS’s Face The Nation over the weekend, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Qin Gang insisted that the Chinese government is opposed to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and is in support of an immediate ceasefire. That stance would leave Russian President Vladimir Putin only increasingly isolated in global affairs; the ambassador also appeared to insist that China would not be sending weapons or ammunition “to any party” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Russia’s invading forces in Ukraine have faced increasing logistical struggles amid heavy losses that they’ve apparently sustained in both equipment and personnel. Although exact numbers have varied and are obviously difficult to conclusively determine at this juncture, a conservative estimate from U.S. intelligence recently placed Russian troop deaths in the presently unfolding conflict at over 7,000.

Recently, President Joe Biden spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping, to whom Biden “described the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians,” according to the White House. The Chinese Ambassador said on CBS that during the conversation between the U.S. and Chinese leaders, “President Xi Jinping gave China’s position very clear: that is, China stands for peace, opposes war. China is a peace-loving country. We hate to see the situation in Ukraine come to today like this. And we call for an immediate ceasefire. And we are promoting peace talks. And we are sending humanitarian assistance… What China is doing is sending foods, medicines, sleeping bags, and baby formula. Not weapons and ammunition to any party.” Check out those remarks below:

Russia has received support in its invasion of Ukraine from Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad, the latter of whom has apparently pledged tens of thousands of fighters for Russia’s side in the war in Ukraine, although it remains to be seen whether that promise actually turns into reality. The prevailing global response to Russia’s recent military invasion has been unequivocal condemnation; Russia has become the most-sanctioned country on the planet, surpassing North Korea, and numerous interests have provided security assistance — meaning weapons — to the Ukrainian personnel defending their homeland against Russian aggression. That aggression has already sparked steep costs, with thousands of Ukrainian civilians having died. As reported on this site, in one example of many, Russian forces fired on a nursing home in the Luhansk region, killing 56 people. Russian personnel forcibly moved survivors of the attack elsewhere.

In another horror out of the besieged city of Mariupol, Russian invaders struck a school where hundreds of people had been sheltering, not long after they struck a theater where hundreds had also been sheltering. The Russian word for “children” was written in large letters on the ground outside of the theater in an attempt to keep invaders from striking it. As of this past Friday, hundreds of people were believed to remain trapped beneath the theater wreckage. China was already recently reported to have refused to provide aircraft parts for usage in Russia, where companies including Boeing and Airbus have been winding down their business. As Valery Kudinov — an official at Rosaviatsia, the Russian government agency responsible for the civil aviation industry — explained things: “We have tasked airlines with looking for a possible supplier of parts on their own. As far as I know, there is information that a request has been made to China, but China has refused to do it.”



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