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#Ukraine: Jeddah peace parley attended by PRC. Katrina Vanden Heuve

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Ukraine: Jeddah peace parley attended by PRC. Katrina Vanden Heuvel
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/08/07/exp-saudi-arabia-ukraine-peace-talks-robertson-live-080708aseg2-cnni-world.cnn


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This is CBS, I'm the world. I'm John Bachelors, reporting of the Peace Conversations in Jeddah, the Saudi Arabian Kingdom over these last days.

0:36.0

Ukraine hails Jeddah talks as a blow to Russia. China says it's staying impartial.

0:42.0

A senior Ukrainian official goes the copy.

0:45.0

Said talks about the Ukraine war held in Saudi Arabia, dealt a, quote, huge blow to Russia,

0:51.0

while key Kremlin ally China declared it remained impartial in the conflict following its participation in the discussions.

1:00.0

40 countries were represented, the US and the European countries were present, not Russia.

1:06.0

I welcome Katrina Vandenhovel, the editorial director and publisher of the Nation magazine.

1:11.0

Katrina, very good even to you. China showed up.

1:14.0

Thank you.

1:15.0

Am I making too much of that? China was there.

1:18.0

You're not making too much of it. I think for China, you know, the main issue for China remains the unpredictability of the long term nature of this war, this conflict.

1:27.0

I mean, I think as China looks out, the world is destabilized by the war and that's bad from Beijing's perspective.

1:35.0

As much as they might like the distracting effect it has towards the West focus on China.

1:39.0

But, you know, Russia, the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Sergey Lavrov and the Chinese Foreign Minister, spoke very quickly soon after the conference gathering in Jeddah.

1:50.0

And the Chinese Foreign Minister released talk back, I think, about the need for China to uphold an independent and impartial stance.

1:59.0

And though Ukraine may have seen this as a defeat for Russia, I think most of the countries, and we talked about this, it's the Bix, it's Brazil and the China Russia wasn't there.

2:10.0

The Greek gathering is coming up in two weeks.

2:13.0

But many of the countries represented are not, they're more neutral, though they oppose the war in ways, not all of them.

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