Letters | Moscow visit shines light on China’s ambition to be a global peacemaker

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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow for a state visit, days after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine. China seems to be positioning itself as the new global peacemaker.

Having recently brokered a rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, China is once again flexing its diplomatic muscle, this time in eastern Europe, in a show of what China is capable of, if it tried. China could be an honest broker in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Whereas the United States was often dubbed the “world’s policeman”, China is trying to earn the label of “global peacemaker”. In a few weeks, China has emerged not just as a regional power but as one increasingly seeking a larger global role.