This certainly doesn't help things....
(The Guardian) China’s top diplomat to visit Moscow
China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, is due to visit Moscow shortly, and may possibly even meet Putin, according to Russian officials.
A source close to the visit organisers told Russian state media outlet Tass that Wang Yi “is expected to arrive on Tuesday”. “We would like a political solution to provide a peaceful and sustainable framework to Europe,” Wang Yi said ahead of his visit during a stop in Hungary.
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told state media: “We do not rule out a meeting between Mr Wang Yi and the president. He will indeed be in Moscow.”
Over the weekend, US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, warned against Beijing providing material support to Moscow’s invasion, prompting China to tell the US to keep out of its relationship with Russia.
Chinese weapons supplies to Russia would risk a potential escalation of the Ukraine war into a confrontation between Russia and China on the one side and Ukraine and the US-led Nato military alliance on the other. Zelenskiy also warned that there will be a “world war” if China decides to support Russia in its war on Ukraine.
Zelenskiy said Kyiv would like Beijing “to be on our side” in an interview with Die Welt. If China allies itself with Russia, there will be a world war, and I do think that China is aware of that,” he said.