China's Role in Ukraine-Russia Conflict: Insights and Possibilities.

Ukraine's finance minister, Serhiy Marchenko, has suggested that Kyiv should use its relationship with China as leverage to end Russia's full-scale invasion. Marchenko's comments came after a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Chinese President Xi Jinping. China has said it will send special representatives to Ukraine and hold talks with all parties to end the conflict. The timing of the call and China's decision to send emissaries to Ukraine has raised eyebrows among political and defense analysts.