White House Is ‘Encouraging’ China-Ukraine Talks

The Biden administration is welcoming a potential meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping.
The White House would encourage such an arrangement in order to help Chinese communist leadership better understand the needs of the Ukrainian people, according to National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby.
“We think it would be a very good thing if the two of them talked,” Kirby said during a March 16 press call.
“We think it’s really important for the Chinese to get the Ukrainian perspective and not just Mr. Putin’s.”
Kirby added that the White House had been “encouraging” such a meeting for “quite some time” and said that the administration would be cautious of any attempt by China to broker a peace deal without consulting deeply with Ukraine first….}