Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Russia on March 20 for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss China's "peace plan" for ending the war in Ukraine.

How China will take advantage of the difficult situation in which the Russian Federation found itself, what Xi Jinping is offering to the Kremlin dictator and what goal he is pursuing - TSN.ua gathered the opinions of experts regarding the visit of the leader of the People's Republic of China to Moscow. 

Putin violated Xi Jinping's plans

China fears the defeat of Russia in the war during the upcoming counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army.

The editor of the information portal "Ukraine in Arabic" Mohammad Farajallah

told about this

on the air of the all-Ukrainian telethon, which is broadcast by the TSN YouTube channel.

"China is a cold, calm "red dragon" that bided its time. Putin violated that," he said.

According to the expert, China needs Russia "like a huge gas station."

Beijing is also concerned about the fate of half a million Chinese living in bordering Russian cities.

As Farajallah noted,

China planned "to form its "Warsaw Pact" against NATO, but this plan was violated by Putin due to stupidity and haste

. "

"

Now this visit is so that China will not let Russia lose.

Propaganda says that the Russian army is strong, but Chinese intelligence has seriously penetrated the Russian army, knows the real state of the Russian army, understands that Russia can lose in the counteroffensive that the Armed Forces are preparing in the spring and summer Then the West will dictate the terms, and China will lose a possible junior ally," he explained.

As the expert noted, Beijing will offer the West negotiations under the guise of a "for peace" initiative: "China will speak - I can pressure Putin to stop the shooting, let's negotiate."

"Dual position" of the PRC

Political expert

Volodymyr Fesenko

predicts that China will maintain a "dual position" in relations with Russia.

"China will not drop its mask. The duality of China's position at the moment and in the near future will be preserved. China has its own political partnership and even a military partnership with Russia. But during the year of the war, they hardly helped Russia. The Russians even resented China - as yes, we are allies. China will act in its own interests. The fact that they publicly expressed their desire to be a "peacemaker" is real, but in the Chinese style," says the political scientist.

According to Fesenko,

the Chinese feel that "the war between Russia and Ukraine is reaching its climax, and possibly the finish line

. "

"They need to enter the game. If the war ends, they will begin to negotiate around the final stage - on what terms is peace, what is the agreement about. Turkey, the United States, the European Union will be in the game - how about without China? China claims global leadership and it has to be in the game," he believes.

As the expert predicts, China will "act according to the situation, if necessary - they will help Russia to some extent."

According to him

, it is not in China's interest for the Kremlin to lose, as they consider this war in the context of a confrontation with the USA.

At the same time, China can also use the weakening of Russia to its advantage.

Putin's rescue and "soft defeat"

Political scientist

Andriy Piontkovskyi

believes that Xi Jinping is trying to save Putin from defeat in the war and provide him with a "soft defeat" that the Kremlin "could sell to its deep people as an honorable draw."

"He wants to provide him with some soft version of defeat - return to the line on February 23, 2022, so that he stays in power. This is important to him, because Putin has a policy of giving up, 15 years of giving up economic political positions in the Far East, in Siberia and China, it suits him.

After the crushing defeat of Russia, Putin will not be able to resist, and any person who comes to review Putin's policy will crawl in front of China. Therefore, it is important for Xi to keep Putin in power, and for this he must be allowed to get out of the Ukrainian situation.

" - the political scientist explained on the air of the "Freedom" channel.

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