{"id":43923,"date":"2022-08-04T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=43923"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T08:38:23","slug":"zelensky-wants-direct-talks-with-chinese-leader-to-stop-russian-invasion-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=43923","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky wants direct talks with Chinese leader to stop Russian invasion &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelensky wants direct talks with Chinese leader to stop Russian invasion &#8211; South China Morning Post ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volodymyr Zelenskyi .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate . 4. \u00a0August . 2022 | Political News.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Beijing to use its economic and political power to pressure Moscow to comply with international norms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelenskyi said that Ukraine is looking for an opportunity to talk &#8220;directly&#8221; with China about its ongoing war with Russia, noting that our country had always sought close relations with Beijing in the years leading up to the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an exclusive interview with the Post, the Ukrainian leader urged the Asian superpower to use its enormous political and economic influence over Russia to end hostilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a very powerful state.&nbsp;It is a powerful economy&#8230; That is why it can influence Russia politically and economically.&nbsp;And China is also a permanent member of the UN Security Council.&nbsp;I am sure that without the Chinese market for the Russian Federation, Russia would feel complete economic isolation,&#8221; Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zelensky made it clear that, in his opinion, China has the economic leverage to pressure Putin to end the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, China was the main trading partner of Ukraine with a turnover of almost 19 billion US dollars, according to data from the Embassy of Ukraine in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:\u00a0Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelensky wants direct talks with Chinese leader to stop Russian invasion &#8211; South China Morning Post , Volodymyr Zelenskyi . KYIV. UkraineGate . 4. \u00a0August . 2022 | Political News. \u00a0Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Beijing to use its economic and political power to pressure Moscow to comply with international norms.\u00a0 Details Zelenskyi said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750],"tags":[223,996,2399,1000,1854,1106],"class_list":["post-43923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","tag-china","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-world-news","tag-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43928,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43923\/revisions\/43928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}