On June 30, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov and Minister of Commerce of China Wang Wentao signed a secret agreement regulating the participation of Chinese companies in large infrastructure projects in Ukraine. This happened just a few weeks after Kyiv, allegedly being pressured by China, dropped its signature from a UN complaint about the rights of Uyghurs, an ethnic minority China has been accused of conducting genocide on. The move sparked discussions on Zelensky’s possible foreign-policy shift from the West to Beijing. What implications of the incident should Ukraine expect?
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A young demonstrator from the Uyghur Community holds a banner reading "+3 million Uyghurs in China's concentration camps" during a protest near the Belgium parliament in Brussels, the day Belgian MPs are due to vote a resolution denouncing 'serious risk of genocide' against China's Uyghurs on July 8, 2021.
