{"id":1367018,"date":"2022-03-09T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367018"},"modified":"2022-03-09T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:01:33","slug":"chinas-xi-jinping-ignores-nationwide-coronavirus-crisis-to-meddle-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinas-xi-jinping-ignores-nationwide-coronavirus-crisis-to-meddle-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s Xi Jinping Ignores Nationwide Coronavirus Crisis to Meddle in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchinas-xi-jinping-ignores-nationwide-coronavirus-crisis-to-meddle-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367018&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping joined a video call with the heads of state of France and Germany on Tuesday to berate them into opposing sanctions on Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, prioritizing the war thousands of miles away over the outbreak of Chinese coronavirus cases across 13 Chinese provinces this week.<\/p>\n<p>China is a close ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin and has claimed it would lend Moscow support in ensuring its alleged \u201csecurity concerns\u201d are met. Beijing has abstained from enthusiastically embracing the war in Ukraine, however, refusing to recognize the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent countries and urging Russia to respect Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chinese officials have also emphasized that they view Ukraine as a sovereign state unlike Taiwan, a democratic country China wrongfully considers a rogue \u201cprovince.\u201d In his speech announcing that he would recognize the alleged sovereignty of Donetsk and Luhansk, Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/21\/ukraine-completely-created-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-pro-russian-separatists\/\">declared<\/a> Ukraine as \u201cno tradition\u201d of being a country and was \u201ccompletely created by Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s state propaganda newspaper\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> reported on Tuesday that Xi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202203\/1254362.shtml\">held<\/a> a \u201cvirtual summit\u201d with French President\u00a0Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to urge them not to sanction Russia and pursue \u201cpeace talks\u201d between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelevant sanctions will affect global finance, energy, transportation and stability of supply chains, and dampen the global economy which is already ravaged by the pandemic. This is in the interest of no one, Xi said during the virtual meeting,\u201d according to the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>. \u201cXi stressed that the current situation in Ukraine is worrisome, and China is deeply grieved by the outbreak of war again on the European continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20164754\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An armed man stands by the remains of a Russian military vehicle in Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. (AP Photo\/Serhii Nuzhnenko, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Xi reportedly insisted the \u201csovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries must be respected\u201d \u2013 an apparent rebuke of Putin\u2019s stance on Ukraine, which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/16\/ukraine-seeks-become-chinas-bridge-europe-after-biden-gets-cozy-putin\/\">signed<\/a> major deals with Chinese companies \u2013 and that Europe should implement \u201ca balanced, effective and sustainable European security framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elysee.fr\/emmanuel-macron\/2022\/03\/08\/entretien-allemagne-et-chine\">confirmed<\/a> in a brief press release on the conversation that the three discussed \u201cthe role of sanctions\u201d and added a detail missing from the\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em>\u2018 coverage: that the leaders discussed \u201can agreement with Iran\u201d unrelated to the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019s remarks follow his top diplomat Wang Yi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/07\/chinas-top-diplomat-beijing-seeks-active-role-ukraine-war\/\">saying<\/a> on Monday that China sought to take \u201cafter measures in order to settle this critical situation in Ukraine.\u201d Wang did not elaborate on what role, exactly, the Communist Party was looking to play in the conflict, but emphasized the relations between Beijing and Moscow were \u201crock solid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Wang\u2019s remarks, the\u00a0<em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/08\/china-says-ukraines-neo-nazi-azov-battalion-helped-hong-kong-protesters\/\">published<\/a> a story bizarrely claiming that a Ukrainian neo-Nazi militia, the Azov Battalion, had been active in the 2019 anti-communist peaceful protests in Hong Kong. Should China choose to emphasize the allegation, it may give Beijing a superficial national security issue to become more heavily involved on Russia\u2019s behalf in the war in Ukraine. Putin has called the war an effort to \u201cde-Nazify\u201d Ukraine, omitting that the country\u2019s current president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Xi has taken a lower-profile public role in China\u2019s policies in the past few months, surfacing only for issues involving international relations. Xi has been entirely absent in China\u2019s domestic battle against the Chinese coronavirus, which originated in central Wuhan, China, in 2019. While much of the rest of the world has moved on from mandatory lockdowns, China continues what it calls its \u201czero-covid\u201d policy with little success.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20147930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20147930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Coronavirus-outbreak-in-China.jpg\" alt=\"Workers in protective suits take a rest as people line up to register during a mass COVID-19 test outside a shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andy Wong)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in protective suits take a rest as people line up to register during a mass COVID-19 test outside a shopping mall in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (AP Photo\/Andy Wong)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chinese health officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/07\/coronavirus-boom-hits-13-chinese-provinces\/\">confirmed<\/a> the re-emergence of the disease in 13 provinces nationwide on Monday, resulting in rolling lockdowns across major metropolitan centers.\u00a0The provinces were all over the map, from southern Guangdong to northeastern Jilin, on the border with North Kora. Shanghai, the country\u2019s largest metropolitan area, documented 45 cases on Monday, according to the Communist Party, which has faced years of accusations of underreporting coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/31\/beijing-epicenter-chinas-coronavirus-spike-four-days-before-olympics\/\">epicenter<\/a> of the national struggle to contain the virus last month as the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics began, prompting Communist Party officials to lock down multiple neighborhoods as a result. The Olympics itself were held inside a locked-down bubble under a system China called \u201cclosed-loop management.\u201d The system failed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/09\/chinas-coronavirus-closed-loop-olympic-bubble-popped-by-465-positive-cases\/\">resulting<\/a> in hundreds of cases being identified within the bubble. Officials forced athletes and others suspected of being exposed to coronavirus into widely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/05\/report-china-keeping-winter-olympians-in-unreasonable-quarantine-conditions\/\">condemned<\/a> quarantine facilities featuring poor amenities and often with little explanation of what was happening to its victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping joined a video call with the heads of state of France and Germany on Tuesday to berate them into opposing sanctions on Russia for its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}