On Wednesday, the Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. The call comes two months after China put forward a 12-point peace plan to end the war. During Wednesday’s call, Xi reportedly said negotiations are the only viable way out of the conflict. Xi also offered to send a special envoy to Ukraine and the region to help resolve the crisis.
To talk more about the war in Ukraine and growing calls for negotiations, Medea Benjamin is still with us, co-founder of CodePink, co-author of the new book War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, co-author of a recent piece in The Progressive headlined “Pentagon Leaks Punch a Hole in the U.S. Propaganda War.”
we saw from the Pentagon leaks how the U.S. is painting this rosy picture of the war in Ukraine, when the opposite is true. There is a grinding war of attrition, as the leaks say, that is heading towards a stalemate. It really is a stalemate. And yet the U.S. is not participating in any of these efforts for peace talks. You see China taking the lead, talking to both Putin and now Zelensky, an incredibly positive thing.
It also relates to our talk about Latin America, because we see Lula is not only involved in this but is going around the world trying to create a peace club of nations to put pressure
— source democracynow.org | Apr 27, 2023