While an American congressional delegation was in Taiwan trying to shore up our relations in the region, French President Emmanuel Macron was taking a different approach. Macron was in Beijing, meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He was pressing China to try to “talk some sense into” Vladimir Putin and convince the Russians to come to the negotiating table and end the hostilities in Ukraine. But even if Xi was willing to consider the idea, the Kremlin appeared to preemptively veto any such plans. Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov told local journalists that “there are no prospects for a political settlement.” In other words, there is still no sign of an offramp in the invasion that would allow Putin to withdraw and return the region to any sort of normality. (Business Insider)Read More
Moscow: No Chinese peace deal
