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| Volodymyr Zelensky Asks Xi Jinping for Talks, Invites China to Rebuild Ukraine |
| 2022-08-06 |
| [Breitbart] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the South China Morning Post on Thursday that he would like to discuss his country’s war against Russia with the leader of Russia’s closest ally, Xi Jinping, "directly," and invited China to help rebuild Ukraine once the war is over. Zelensky’s discussion with the Morning Post, a Hong Kong newspaper, was the first with an Asian news outlet since Russia escalated its eight-year-old war against Ukraine into a full-scale invasion in February. Zelensky used the opportunity to request a personal discussion with Xi, a genocidal communist dictator who is largely bankrolling the invasion of Ukraine through large purchases of cheap Russian oil and gas. Ukraine is a member of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global program to trap poor countries in predatory loans to China that they cannot afford. The loans are nominally meant to pay China for massive infrastructure projects. China was also Ukraine’s top trading partner prior to the war. Last year, Zelensky said he hoped that Ukraine would become a "bridge to Europe" for Chinese influence in his last conversation with Xi. While welcoming Chinese financing and failing to criticize China for maintaining a strong alliance with Russia throughout this year’s invasion, Zelensky has been slightly more critical of the Chinese Communist Party than his predecessors, unilaterally sanctioning the world’s second-largest economy last year after a Chinese company tried to buy a key Ukrainian defense corporation. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Pandemics, famine, war. It all will get even worse still. |
| Posted by: Phons Omert2327 2022-08-06 12:11 |
| #10 Will D.C. and Hollywood now stop kissing Volodmyr Zelensky's ass? No. They all think this is a perfectly reasonable request. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-08-06 11:53 |
| #9 Will D.C. and Hollywood now stop kissing Volodmyr Zelensky's ass? On the contrary, Vogue was just the beginning. It will be capped so not to make US/Euro 'leaders' look weaker than he. Long, tedious, boring, cribbed from other efforts, and a nod to all involved, like "No Time to Die". |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-08-06 10:33 |
| #8 Ukraine is a money laundering operation for the beltway bandits. A brothel would be more respectable. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 09:46 |
| #7 ^ Really? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 09:28 |
| #6 Ukraine Is Not a Brothel |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-06 08:57 |
| #5 Cookie pushers and candy salesmen. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 08:27 |
| #4 Foggy bottom is nothing more than the Klingon...'downtown detachment.' Scrap the entire bunch |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-06 08:23 |
| #3 State Department needs to be reduced to a pamphlet operation with one serious officer per embassy to sort out US Passport holders idiot troubles in foreign lands. Don't even ask me what CIA needs to be reduced to. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-06 07:02 |
| #2 Volodymyr was implanted as a tool of the west to destabilize and weaken Russia. He is currently failing big time. Send me money, send me weapons and they do but he complains it is not enough and too slow. Soon we will see his exit after having his country destroyed. The loss of life of his troops is huge but covered up. His country will be divided up. Poland will acquire lands lost after WW11. Russia will reclaim Russian speaking areas so who else might be tempted. The spoils of war. |
| Posted by: Dale 2022-08-06 06:33 |
| #1 Will D.C. and Hollywood now stop kissing Volodmyr Zelensky's ass? |
| Posted by: Sgt.D.T. 2022-08-06 01:23 |