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Russia over the past few years, and it also has very close ties with ukraine as well, and has really tried to remain on the periphery here. it has tried to play peace maker. president erdogan said time and time again trying to host talks, broker a cease-fire. the official position remains this needs to be resolved through dialogue. adds jim mentioned there, we saw this shift in rhetoric on sunday when several turkish officials including the foreign minister coming out and saying, look, after consultations and deliberations, they have decided what is going on in ukraine is a war. this comes aft...

Hasn't outwardly criticized it either for president xi. >> reporter: imperfect balance is a good way to describe it. they cemented their relationship with russia and respecting integrity, trying to minimize their exposure to the western sanctions against russia. this is such a mission impossible that's why analysts say they have indeed made a choice. they have decided to side with russia despite their public assistance of being impartial and trying to play the role of a peace maker. if you look there are government statements and official reports as we discussed the last hour, it was increase ...

They're designed to put china on the spot. the u.s. is growing increasingly frustrated with beijing. calling for peace talks and their huge economic leverage over moscow and the close personal relationship, there's no indication china is attempting to stop this bloody war. the most active part china seems to be doing is parenting a lot of the kremlin's talking points and disinformation campaign that's why at this stage many analysts say it doesn't seem to be china is serious about playing the role of a peace maker. >> stephen jiang for us in beijing. thank you very much. the leaders of nato ...

Moment to basically signal the chinese and say, if you provide explicit military or economic help to putin this will not just put you in harm's way in terms of sanctions and growing technology controls, but this will fundamentally change the u.s./chinese relationship going forward. there's at least the possibility now that the united states and china could find some kind of a new equilibrium. if china essentially goes all-in on putin, then i think the message has to be to try to discourage that, that that will forever -- at least for years, if not decades, change the trajectory of our relation...

Look at them and view their actions, and that is a decision for president xi and the chinese to make. >> reporter: president biden hoping to get xi to take on the role of peace maker. interesting to compare readouts from both sides. u.s. side stressing it was mostly about ukraine with biden warning xi of consequences should china help russia. state media in china playing up that xi pressed biden on taiwan which china considers part of its sovereignty. xi warning biden if the taiwan issue isn't handled property, it won't be good for u.s./china relations. coming up, two million ukrainian refug...