{"id":506823,"date":"2025-10-17T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506823\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:51:16","slug":"china-welcomes-planned-us-russia-engagement-over-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/506823\/","title":{"rendered":"China welcomes planned US\u2013Russia engagement over Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISTANBUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China on Friday said it was \u201cglad\u201d to see continued engagement between Russia and the US over the war in Ukraine, which has lasted for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing \u201csupports all efforts conducive [to the] peaceful settlement of the crisis,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian told a news conference in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Lin was responding to questions about US President Donald Trump\u2019s plans to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Hungary within the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>China \u201cis glad to see Russia and the US keep in contact, improve their relations, and advance the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis,\u201d Lin added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said Thursday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov would meet next week to set the time and venue for the presidential meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Both meetings were publicly discussed after Trump and Putin held a bilateral telephone call earlier Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe it\u2019s already set up. They\u2019ve already spoken,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to his expected meeting with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is scheduled to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Friday, saying he would brief him on his \u201cvery good\u201d call with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a problem. They don\u2019t get along too well, those two, and it\u2019s sometimes tough to have meetings. So, we may do something where we\u2019re separate, but separate but equal,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The US president added that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban would host his meeting with Putin in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement of his meeting with Putin \u2014 which would be their second since the two leaders met in Alaska in August \u2014 comes as Washington has urged China and India to curb imports of Russian crude.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has rejected the pressure, warning that it would take countermeasures if its interests were harmed over its ties with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/p\/subscription\/1001\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:12px; color:#444; text-decoration:none;\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                    Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. <b style=\"color:#1897F7\">Please contact us for subscription options.<\/b>&#13;<br \/>\n                                <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL China on Friday said it was \u201cglad\u201d to see continued engagement between Russia and the US over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[5340,1395,32,10677,332,657,978,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-506823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-anadolu-ajansi","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-lin-jian","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115389601172863531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}