Anthony Albanese has been accused of speaking out of both sides of its mouth after the Prime Minister spruiked a peacekeeping presence in Ukraine while saying nothing about how China is enabling President Vladimir Putin’s war.

President Donald Trump is meeting with Vladimir Putin, and security analysts caution that China views the talks as a test case for potential aggression in the Indo-Pacific region.

Inside the Oval Office, Zelensky and Trump showed few signs of their once-frayed relationship. They talked positively about a U.S. role in security guarantees for Ukraine — one of the most complex issues under discussion — to ensure that Russia does not restart the war after they agree to a peace deal.

Under the proposed Russian deal, Kyiv would fully withdraw from the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in return for a Russian pledge to freeze the front lines in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the sources said.

The Alaska summit between President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was more than a high-stakes encounter over the Ukraine war. It signaled America’s recognition that its own missteps have helped drive Russia closer to China, fueling a de facto alliance that poses the gravest threat to U.S. global preeminence since the Cold War.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In response to a media inquiry about the recent developments in the Ukraine crisis and China's position

China advocates for a peaceful political resolution of the "Ukraine crisis” and supports international initiatives to achieve lasting peace, says Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, according to Global Times.

For Europe, China’s close ties with Russia and perceived support for its war effort have overshadowed ties between China and Europe for more than three years. In Beijing, European Council President António Costa told his counterparts that China should “use its influence on Russia to respect the United Nations Charter and to bring an end of its war of aggression against Ukraine.

Russia on Wednesday demanded to be a part of talks on Ukraine’s security guarantees as it continued to play down the US President Donald Trump's hopes for a bilateral meet between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a lasting peace deal.

Trump is due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders at the White House on Monday, August 18, to press Kyiv to make a deal with Russia, which is demanding that more land be ceded to Moscow.

Still, Beijing welcomes engagement between Washington and Moscow to improve their relations and advance ‘political settlement’ of the crisis.