Beijing

After a year of maintaining a position of prudent and pragmatic – but ambiguous – neutrality regarding the condemnation of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, last Friday, China presented a twelve-point plan to advance a political solution that will lead to a cessation of hostilities and a resumption of peace talks between both parties in conflict. The plan reiterates China's position of respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and rejection of the use of nuclear weapons, and calls for abandoning the Cold War mentality -in a clear allusion to the role of the United States and the NATO – to protect…