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To this indicted war criminal in the kremlin, looking specifically ukraine ukrainians have said they are trying to organize a call between she and president zelensky. if that call were to happen. do you see anything coming of it? very little, but i do think it would be a way for china to pretend to be quote unquote, a peacemaker, which is something that is part of ges kind of diplomatic offensive right now. just recently, china brokered a deal between saudi arabia and iran to restore diplomatic ...

Look at this meeting and look, i mean, in the broadest terms, we know that putin who has been absolutely, you know, thrown out of the world community, wanted his reputation shored up a little bit. china, xi, wants to be seen as a peacemaker, did any side get anything substantial out of this meeting, though? >> i would say china did much better than russia and what i mean by that, chris, vladimir putin came to this meeting, essentially with three requests, weapons, weapons, and weapons. thats wha...

Some fodder for propaganda so that he can claim hes not just sticking with russia. hes actually trying to act as a peacemaker. and so i hope he does talk to president zelensky . i think that would restore a tiny bit of balance in that relationship. it would be interesting to have that readout to in terms of what is actually discussed because obviously the peace plan that has been that weve heard about in terms of ges police plan. there are some very clear dealbreakers there for ukraine. yeah. i ...

Putin is now gearing up for a second day of talks with the chinese leader, xi jinping. the two leaders exchanged a handshake and smiles as they met at the kremlin, on monday. they later touted their close ties, a meeting for more than four hours with president xi calling putin his dear friend, this is president xis first visit to moscow since russias invasion of ukraine. well, the highest stakes, closely watched meeting has drawn skepticism from ukraine and its western allies, despite chinas eff...

Global peacemaker that they are pretty much superior as they come here they were trying to spill blood and the same opportunity with the production and stockpile in eastern europe as well as northern alliance with russia. and never been in the line to china because the soviet union, china and malaysia, but now china sees rushs already weakened and strategic calculus that sort of have both the west and russia with europe which is one of the reasons why it is a red line if china starts to provide ...

There to be a collapse that could spill over into china, so thatis could spill over into china, so that is part of its priority in shoring up its relationship. [30 shoring up its relationship. do ou shoring up its relationship. do you think xi jinping sees himself as a sort of peacemaker given his success that everybody is talking about with regard to saudi arabia and iran, does he see himself as a leader on the world stage that is different, and alternative to the chemical west coming in and tr...

>> reporter: chinese officials have been framing this as a trip for peace. its debatable the extent to ■igch china can cast itself in the role of potential peacemaker in a conflict they refuse to rp&l an invas1o

What i sense here is that china has to play this balancing role saying on one hand they are a peacemaker and trying to providd peace in the ukraine, but at the same time, that makes clear that they reallyfá cant provide military arms to the russians because thatçó would undermine their peacemaker qrole. secondly, they are concerned thi world would impose sanctions on china, which could hurt their economy. while all of this is taking place, its pretty clear that china is now caught in a balanc...

They can send them a lot sooner, boris. >> natasha bertran for us in oklahoma. going to make a difference for ukraine. with us now to discuss this is a cnn contributor and our former moscow bureau chief. also with us, cnn military analyst cedric layton. good afternoon to both of you. jill, i want to start with you. we know that the secretary of state, tony blinken said that xi is providing diplomatic cover for putin. we know that xi wants to be viewed as this peacemaker around the world, they ...

Peacemaker to reduce russian isolation, to reduce chinas isolation, to counter american criticism of china as a threat. but i think below all of this there is some disagreement. i dont think china is prepared to provide the weapons to russia that putin wants. i think china would like to advance a situation where theres a ceasefire plan that is in russias interest, in chinas interest, and against the interest of the west and im not sure zelenskyy is going to agree to that. >> john: its remarkable...