China may be wise to act soon on a peace plan for Ukraine

When Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke this week at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an international defence forum in Singapore, he took sharp aim at China. In unusually blunt terms, he accused Xi Jinping of breaking a promise made in a phone call last year not to supply weapons to Russia for its war against Ukraine. "Today, there is intelligence that somehow, some way, some things come to Russia's markets via China," he said. "Unfortunately, Ukraine does not have any powerful connections with China because China does not want it." Zelenskiy also accused Beijing of putting its diplomats in the service of Moscow by…