Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are facing criticism over their reference to the U.N. Charter in their joint remarks on the Ukraine war, following their two-day talks in Moscow that ended on Tuesday.
Xi arrived in Moscow on March 20, a trip that China’s state-run media had billed as a “peace trip.” In February, China revealed a “12-point” peace proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine, a plan largely dismissed in the West as a tactic to buy Putin time in his war against Ukraine.
The proposal lacks concrete plans and does not mandate Russia to withdraw its troops occupying Ukraine, a condition that Kyiv and the United States have insisted on as a precondition for any peace talks….