France, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have expressed dismay after China’s ambassador in Paris questioned the sovereignty not only of Ukraine, but all the former Soviet Republics including the Baltic states. Lu Shaye’s remarks in a TV interview late on Friday raise fresh questions about the faith the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has placed in China to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine.

And so did Ukraine unsurprisingly: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/23/ukraine-slams-china-envoys-absurd-remarks-on-ex-soviet-nations

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    "If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic states don’t trust China to ‘broker peace in Ukraine’, here’s a Chinese ambassador arguing that Crimea is Russian and our countries’ borders have no legal basis,” Lithuania’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis said.