The Ukraine crisis is front-page news again with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker peace between Kiev and Ukrainian pro-independence insurgents. The three will meet in Minsk, capital of Belarus, with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to find ways to restore permanent peace in Ukraine on Wednesday.

China, the engine of growth across the Asia-Pacific region, continues to work closely with Russia to build effective economic and political partnership, which should be seen as important beyond the bilateral relationship. But the international community doesn't do so.

It is good to see the German and French leaders involve more in Ukraine crisis even if it is more to prop up their own political fortunes than to broker a peace deal. But it is certainly not good to see US politicians visiting Ukraine, especially because when it comes to the United States' foreign policy, "foreign" and "policy" form a perfect oxymoron. Why? Because the world has always perceived the US foreign policy as bellicose and bombastic.