April 27—China’s authoritative “Global Times” (GT) featured a discussion of the method of President Xi Jinping’s seemingly mysterious diplomacy. It shocked all the clever analysts, think tanks, and talking heads in the West when the Saudis and Iranians just last month buried the hatchet. Immediately, supposedly intractable hotspots such as Yemen—where many more have died than in the Ukraine conflict—begin to become not so intractable. Again, the Saudis and the Syrians are talking with each other, even though the Saudis for a decade had financed a civil war in Syria—also where many more have died than in the Ukraine conflict. But can Xi perform a semi-miracle with the intractable President Zelenskyy in Ukraine?
