German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he would discuss a "just peace" in Ukraine with Chinese President Xi Jinping at today's bilateral meeting in Beijing. “My meeting with President Xi will also focus on how we can contribute more to a just peace in Ukraine,” he wrote in a post on China.
‘We have many topics to discuss,’ he said in a blog post on the country’s state-run news agency, the Xinhua news agency. The meeting will take place at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing, China, on Wednesday. The two leaders are expected to discuss a range of issues, including economic and security issues, as well as the future of the Black Sea region of the Russian peninsula of Crimea, which has been at the center of the Ukraine crisis since April 2014. The White House said the meeting will focus on economic and economic issues, but did not give further details of the topics to be discussed. It said the two leaders would also discuss the future role of Russia in the region.