{"id":15203,"date":"2022-04-06T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15203"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:27:30","slug":"why-china-wont-mediate-an-end-to-the-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/why-china-wont-mediate-an-end-to-the-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Why China Won\u2019t Mediate an End to the Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__byline\"><time class=\"vl-divider\" datetime=\"2022-04-01T09:58Z\">Apr 1, 2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/time><span class=\"byline\"><span class=\"listing__author author\">JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__abs u-mt-se\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>If there is one person other than Vladimir Putin who can end Russia&rsquo;s war in Ukraine, it is Chinese President Xi Jinping. But Xi has so far remained on the sidelines and is likely to stay there, owing to various domestic political vulnerabilities and his own lack of courage and imagination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body article__body--commentary paywall english\" dir=\"ltr\" data-page-area=\"article-body\">\n<p data-line-id=\"35c05075b564434a9eccc31fad3063f9\">CAMBRIDGE \u2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin thought he could quickly capture Kyiv and replace Ukraine\u2019s government. Whether he was misled by poor intelligence or by his own fantasies about history, his \u201csmash and grab\u201d failed in the face of effective Ukrainian resistance. He then turned to a brutal bombardment of cities like Mariupol and Kharkiv to terrorize the civilian population into submission \u2013 as he had previously done in Grozny and Aleppo. The tragic upshot is that Ukraine\u2019s heroic resistance has been accompanied by increasing civilian suffering.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"456b361aec8f444db966da63c39f16c5\">Is there any way to end this nightmare quickly? One possibility is for Chinese President Xi Jinping to see that he has a \u201cTeddy Roosevelt Moment.\u201d After the brutal war between Russia and Japan in 1905, Roosevelt stepped in to mediate. He pressed hard for the parties to compromise and ultimately prevailed, thereby boosting America\u2019s global influence and winning himself a Nobel Peace Prize.<button class=\"comment__caller comment__caller--no-comment\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-label=\"Paragraph comment\" aria-controls=\"comment__new\" aria-haspopup=\"true\"><\/button><\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"456b361aec8f444db966da63c39f16c5\">Read the entire article on the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/why-china-wont-mediate-end-to-russia-ukraine-war-by-joseph-s-nye-2022-04?barrier=accesspay\">Project Syndicate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall paywall--base\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\" data-walltype=\"paywall\" data-pa=\"\" data-page-area=\"wall\" data-page-subarea=\"paywall\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 1, 2022\u00a0\u00a0JOSEPH S. NYE, JR. If there is one person other than Vladimir Putin who can end Russia&rsquo;s war in Ukraine, it is Chinese President Xi Jinping. But Xi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-15203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}