{"id":10185,"date":"2023-03-09T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2023-03-09T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:53:18","slug":"you-aint-no-middleman-eu-and-nato-slam-chinas-bid-to-be-a-ukraine-peacemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10185","title":{"rendered":"You ain\u2019t no middleman: EU and NATO slam China\u2019s bid to be a Ukraine peacemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Central and Eastern European countries, the most vocal supporters of arming Ukraine further, are equally dismissive of Beijing\u2019s rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s plan is vague and does not offer solutions,\u201d Ivana Kar\u00e1skov\u00e1, who heads the China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe think tank based in Prague. \u201cThe plan calls on Russia and Ukraine to deal with the issue themselves, which would only benefit Russia; China continues to oppose what it calls unilateral sanctions and asks for the sanctions to be approved by the UN Security Council \u2014 well, given the fact that the aggressor is a permanent UNSC member with a veto right, this claim is beyond ridiculous.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-war-russia-china-negotiations-diplomacy-nato-europe-diplomacy-peacemaker\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-war-russia-china-negotiations-diplomacy-nato-europe-diplomacy-peacemaker\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Central and Eastern European countries, the most vocal supporters of arming Ukraine further, are equally dismissive of Beijing\u2019s rhetoric.<br \/>\n\u201cChina\u2019s plan is vague and does not offer solutions,\u201d Ivana Kar\u00e1skov\u00e1, who heads the China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe think tank based in Prague. \u201cThe plan calls on Russia and Ukraine to deal with the issue themselves, which would only benefit Russia; China continues to oppose what it calls unilateral sanctions and asks for the sanctions to be approved by the UN Security Council \u2014 well, given the fact that the aggressor is a permanent UNSC member with a veto right, this claim is beyond ridiculous.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1366,89,552,390,728,923,272,355,314,1545,1070,315,311,158],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-allies","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-diplomacy","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}