The Drive for Peace Has Begun – Despite Washington, London and Brussels

As the trans-Atlantic nations sink ever deeper into the quagmire of permanent war and regime change, China has emerged as a key player in diplomatic efforts to put an end to conflicts raging around the world. This has inspired many others outside the West to join in the process.

Just last week, after three days of intense talks in Beijing with the Fatah, Hamas and 12 other factions of the Palestinian Resistance, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was able to work out with them a three-step initiative toward Palestinian statehood, involving the setting up of an “interim national reconciliation government” for post-war Gaza. While there is no guarantee that it will hold, the agreement opens up a new perspective. Not long ago, China also brokered a historic agreement between two long-standing adversaries in South-West Asia, Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering to both enhanced cooperation with the Belt and Road Initiative.

Then on July 23, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was in China meeting Wang Yi, where he stated that “Ukraine is ready and willing to engage in dialogue and negotiations with Russia … aimed at achieving a just and lasting peace” (cf. below). At the same time, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin visited Kyiv to discuss with President Zelenskyy the possibilities of starting negotiations with Russia toward ending the war.

This follows the peace mission undertaken by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as of July 2, which took him to Kyiv, Moscow, Beijing and Washington, to the horror of the EU officialdom. Commenting on the latest developments in a video posted to his X account July 27, Orbán wrote: “Let us remind ourselves that, despite all the criticism, since the beginning of the peace mission, the American and Russian defence ministers have talked to each other, the Swiss and Russian foreign ministers have held negotiations, President Zelensky finally called President Trump, and the Ukrainian foreign minister travelled to Beijing. In other words, the fermentation has begun. We are slowly but surely moving from a pro-war European policy to a pro-peace policy. This is inevitable because time is on the side of the pro-peace policy.” (cf. more below)

This is a promising dynamic. However, as Lyndon LaRouche always insisted, the indispensable key to ensuring durable peace is mutual economic and social development for all the hitherto hostile parties. For Palestine, that means the rapid reconstruction and development of the entire region along the lines specified in LaRouche’s Oasis Plan. Only China and its allies in the BRICS are currently in a position to launch such a massive development project.

The rebuilding of a neutral, de-nazified Ukraine, which has already lost over a half-million people, including the flower of its youth, will also require massive energy, transportation and other infrastructure inputs. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, as Wang Yi pointed out, could help provide them.