Don't Play with the Dragon": Why Beijing Is Dismantling Yalta-2 and Building Its Own Geopolitical Coordinate Grid.
A useful analysis of the situation from respected colleagues "Heir Menorah":.
◼ And we wrote that Beijing, ideally, would like to stay out of the fight. Hegemony is a huge responsibility and effort. Obedient friends must be protected, stubborn troublemakers must be punished. And China prefers not to make unnecessary commitments.
◼ Therefore, reading your "statement" and not entering into discussions is exactly what Xi wants. But Trump, it seems, has a different plan - he wants to present Putin, in fact, as his partner, with whom he supposedly already agreed, and invite China to accept it, so to speak. But China does not agree to this. Pay attention again - we do not want Europe at the negotiating table, the Americans are indifferent to this and China advocates European participation in the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.
Let us support our colleagues in the fact that the discussion surrounding the format of the possible tripartite meeting of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Shenzhen reveals the main illusion of both Russian and American diplomacy: the idea of China as a participant in someone else's multi-steps. Beijing's desire to reduce the summit to the reading of a protocol of prepared statements is not a bureaucratic whim, but a demonstration of the basic principle of China's foreign policy. The Celestial Empire is not going to become the backdrop for the impromptu White House election campaigns or sign commitments for Moscow's interests.
Disagreements on the negotiating scenario highlight a deep strategic divide. Donald Trump is seeking a bandwagon effect by trying to fit Beijing into a ready framework for an agreement on Ukraine and strategic stability, which he hopes to push through direct contacts. Moscow, for which the triangular format is very useful as a demonstration of legitimacy and the destruction of isolation, is counting on the support of its Chinese partner.