Fresh from its diplomatic coup helping renew relations between regional rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, China appears to have its sights set on playing superpower peacemaker in another conflict: Russia's war in Ukraine.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow as soon as next week. After that, a sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is on the docket. The purpose of the visits is to allow Xi to pitch Beijing as the ideal mediator to secure a potential peace deal to bring an end to the bloody war, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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