{"id":436152,"date":"2025-09-24T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/09\/24\/ucraina-von-der-leyen-alla-cina-usate-la-vostra-influenza-per-portare-la-russia-ai-negoziati\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:02:19","slug":"ukraine-von-der-leyen-to-china-use-your-influence-to-bring-russia-to-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/09\/24\/ukraine-von-der-leyen-to-china-use-your-influence-to-bring-russia-to-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine, von der Leyen to China: &#8220;Use your influence to bring Russia to negotiations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; After accusations and sanctions for supporting Moscow in its war against Ukraine, the&nbsp;<strong>European Union is now trying its hand at diplomacy, asking China to use its weight to bring the Kremlin leader to the negotiating table<\/strong>.&nbsp;<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">The<span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/ga\/80\/agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;United Nations General Assembly meeting&nbsp;<\/a>provided an opportunity for a bilateral meeting between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang to try to discuss the situation in&nbsp;<\/span>Ukraine.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>I have asked China to use its influence to help end the killings and encourage Russia to sit at the negotiating table<\/strong>,&#8221; von der Leyen stated at the end of the meeting with the head of the government of the People&#8217;s Republic.<\/span><\/span> &#8220;<span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The time for diplomacy has come,&#8221; continued the president of the EU executive, convinced that a clear Chinese initiative &#8220;would send a strong signal to the world.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><strong>Von der Leyen is therefore asking Beijing<\/strong> for help in ending the conflict that has dragged on since February 2022, and it matters little whether tensions persist between the parties. In the last few months,&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/27\/ukraine-eu-insists-china-supports-russia-stop-this-cooperation\/\"><b>Brussels has openly attacked China for its support of Putin&#8217;s Russia<\/b><\/a>, going so far as to include<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/14\/white-paper-on-defense-identifies-russia-and-china-as-possible-eu-enemies\/\"><b> the Asian country on the list of enemies of the European Union<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;She adopts a pragmatic approach, aware of the region&#8217;s geographical position and political-economic strength that makes Beijing one of the key players, with a capacity for action and pressure that the Europeans lack.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">&#8220;I welcomed Prime Minister Li&#8217;s statement that both Europe and China share an interest in maintaining world peace,&#8221; von der Leyen continued, expressing once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/08\/12\/eu-leaders-open-to-ukraine-talks-with-just-a-reduction-of-hostilities\/\" target=\"_blank\">the European Union&#8217;s position in favour of negotiations even in the event of ongoing conflict.<\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/03\/14\/white-paper-on-defense-identifies-russia-and-china-as-possible-eu-enemies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting between the President of the European Commission and the Prime Minister of Beijing on the occasion of the UN General Assembly: &#8220;Now is the time for diplomacy&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":436136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[31262,32156,26456,26403,26364,30781],"class_list":["post-436152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-li-qiang-en","tag-onu-en","tag-war-russia-in-ukraine-en","tag-ue-cina-en","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436153,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436152\/revisions\/436153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}