On August 24, Ukraine celebrated its 34th Independence Day. On this day in 1991, Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

US President Donald Trump sent a letter to Ukraine on the same day expressing his belief in Ukraine's future as an independent country. He also said that now is the time to end senseless killings and that the United States supports a negotiated agreement.

Trump said in the letter that the United States respects Uzbekistan's fighting and "believes in your future as an independent country." Trump mentioned that the United States and Ukraine stand side by side to protect and defend the most precious values.

"The time has come to end the senseless killing," Mr. Trump said. "The United States supports a negotiated solution that leads to a lasting peace that ends the bloodshed and safeguards the sovereignty and dignity of Ukraine."

Zelensky expressed gratitude to Trump, saying Ukraine is stronger, has self-respect and needs a just peace. He said that Ukraine has not yet completely won, but it will definitely not lose. "Ukraine is a fighter."

At the Independence Day celebration, Mr. Zelensky awarded a first-class medal of merit to Mr. Kellogg, who was not included in the American delegation to the meeting in the middle of this month and is seen as a sympathizer for Ukraine.

Zelensky awarded Kellogg the first-class Merit Medal to represent the United States at the event

Some observers have pointed out that the current US attitude towards Ukraine is worth pondering, and it seems to be a "two-handed strategy".

On the one hand, it provides support when Ukraine faces battlefield difficulties.

The World Wide Web quoted the Wall Street Journal as reporting on the 23rd that the Trump administration approved the sale of 3350 Extended Range Attack Munitions (ERAM) missiles to Uzbekistan, and delivery is expected to begin in about 6 weeks. It is reported that the US$850 million weapons order is mainly funded by European countries.

On the other hand, it also made diplomatic efforts for follow-up negotiations through the visit of senior officials to Ukraine.

Some analysts believe that Kellogg's visit to Ukraine comes at a time when the United States, Ukraine and Europe are "discussing security issues." Some analysts also believe that it is not ruled out that Kellogg's visit is to "advise" Uzbekistan to make necessary compromises with Russia to achieve peace as soon as possible.

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Media: Zelensky clamored that China did not help stop the Russia-Ukraine conflict. China really cannot be used to this face-changing tactic

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao said.

Zelensky, Ukraine's president, said "Ukraine does not need China as one of the countries providing security guarantees".

Zelensky accuses China of "not playing a role in ensuring Ukraine's security"

At yesterday's (August 22) regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded: "China has always been open and open on the issue of the Ukraine crisis, upholding an objective and fair position, and all parties concerned are clear about this."

He said that while Mao did not specify whether China would become a country providing security for Ukraine, and still responded polently to questions from foreign media reporters, we must say what Zelensky said.

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Obviously, Zelensky's remarks are not friendly to China.

Uncle Hai still remembers that at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in 2024, Zelensky said some disrespectful words towards China, many of which were nonsense.

On June 3, 2024, the Philippine Star published on social media footage of the meeting between President Zelensky of Ukraine and President Marcos of the Philippines.

On that trip, he went from Kiev to Singapore, took part in a reconciliation after his speech, then went to Manila, with the Philippine President Marco, and jointly praised each other, saying China is not.

I really don't know what purpose the president of Ukraine in the war went to the Philippines at that time. On the surface, it was nothing more than to win Little Marcos to Switzerland to participate in the "Ukraine Peace Summit" instigated by Western countries without Russia.

Of course, China will not participate in this meeting with elusive purposes behind it.

Later it turned out that even then-US President Biden was especially evaded and did not travel to Switzerland!

After the meeting, Zelensky said he hoped that China would play a role in promoting reconciliation in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

Zelensky, as President of Ukraine, has repeatedly spoke, but this is only the case again.

In Ukraine, parliamentarians who have deviated have repeatedly made outrageous actions in their attitude towards China.

For China, however, it has remained neutral in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and has not favored any of the parties.

As Maung said at a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "we believe that all parties should promote a political solution to the crisis in Ukraine on the basis of a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security concept."

Uncle Hai has to say that what Mao Ning said this time is in line with China's previous position on the Russia-Ukraine conflict and has never changed.

On November 20, 2024, the new ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Ukraine, Malik Liang (right 3) arrived in Ukraine in a car and delivered a written speech.

If Russia and Ukraine can cease the war and make peace, it is what the Chinese side is happy to see. If Russia and Ukraine continue to fight, of course China can persuade them. In fact, China has repeatedly sent diplomats to Russia and Ukraine, to Europe and the Middle East to mediate the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, or to listen to the opinions of all parties.

China is never strong.

I don¡¯t want to say that Russians are going to fight for good.

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You should see Zelensky's talk about the background of China.

On August 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia supports providing strong security guarantees for Ukraine, while not excluding members of the United Nations Security Council, including Western countries, and China from providing such guarantees.

Zelensky spoke immediately the next day.

Uncle Hai wants to say that Zelensky probably doesn't understand what a "member of the United Nations Security Council" means, right?

First, there are five permanent members of the Security Council.

These include Russia and China. Zelensky was born in Ukraine in 1978. Ukraine was a republic of the Soviet Union at the time-therefore, Zelensky at the time was a national of one of the five permanent members of the United Nations. It is worth mentioning that Ukraine during the Soviet era actually had a vote in the United Nations! That was specifically requested by Stalin when the United Nations was founded on the eve of the end of World War II. Unexpectedly, it also laid the foundation for the disintegration of the Soviet Union. In this regard, I won't go into much here.

Picture of Putin's speech: information

Second, there are non-permanent members of the Security Council. Non-permanent members have no veto right in the Security Council.

I don¡¯t know what Zelensky thinks about a permanent member of the Security Council with a veto.

He felt that, to a large extent, the proposal was made by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.

Ukraine opposes whatever Russia proposes-

Is this the logic?

If this is the logic, how can Ukraine negotiate with Russia?

If Ukraine does not want to negotiate with Russia, then Zelensky needs to go back to the White House after experiencing the humiliation of the White House and say four thanks to U.S. President Trump.

Will Trump be prepared to preside over bringing the relevant lands of the four states of Utah into a deal for peace talks?

Zelensky (left), Trump meeting picture: Xinhua News Agency

If so, why would Zelensky say that ¡°Russia did nothing when it incorporated Crimea into its territory in 2014¡±? he noted that Zelensky recently said that in 2014 ¡°Ukraine acknowledged that it was a mistake that Russia took Crimea.¡±

Has Ukraine complied with the Minsk Agreement?

Before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, did France and Germany mediate between Russia and Ukraine? Did Biden disagree with Putin when he was the president of the United States, so he arched the fire and caused the Russian-Ukrainian conflict?

Of course, China does not want to see a fight between Russia and Ukraine. But the reason why Russia and Ukraine fight is not in China.

Zelensky would better look at the map publicly released by China. Which country does the four states of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine belong to in China's position?

Zelensky said that "China did not help prevent the conflict in 2022." It's too easy to say.

When you want China's help, you have a straight face;

Wanting to certain wishes on international occasions, feeling that China is good at speaking, "take it up", and other big countries can't afford, so change a mouth.

This kind of change is unusual.

Zelensky also felt poor when he was in the White House for the first time when he was counted by U.S. Vice President Wallace.

Poor people, in fact, have some.

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Maoning presides over the foreign ministry's routine press conference on August 22

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao said.

He found that Mao did not say that China would rush to provide security to Ukraine.

Look at the world, for example, a certain country in the Caribbean, it is all kinds of targeting China. Even so far it has maintained so-called "diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities.

It is for this reason that China is not accustomed to it. When it should not take action, it will never take action.

You want to go from turmoil to rule, first do what the ruler does, in accordance with international consensus, accepted by the international community.

Within the scope of the Security Council, as long as one permanent member does not cooperate and wants to create some "security guarantee", it is really--

What are you thinking about!