China’s envoy Li Hui is in Ukraine’s capital at the moment seeking to promote Beijing-led negotiations to resolve the conflict. He is the most senior Chinese diplomat to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022. China, a close ally of Moscow, has not publicly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, whose foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said that peace depended on “respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine”.
The Chinese government denies sovereignity of former Soviet states, including Ukraine, as its ambassador to France openly said. One goal of this so-called peace negotiations seems to be to create a precedence case for Taiwan, another independent nation whose legal status is questioned by Beijing. They don’t appear to be acting in good faith.
If China wants peace, they should convince Russia to leave Ukraine.