Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent trip to Russia yielded little. After days of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, no fresh initiatives to end the war in Ukraine emerged.
Yet Mr Xi’s trip to Moscow had one important practical outcome: It unleashed a flood of initiatives from European leaders, all planning to visit Beijing and all eager to hear what China can say or do to end the war.
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