By Philip Blenkinsop and Yew Lun Tian BRUSSELS/BEIJING (Reuters) -China offered the European Union assurances on Friday that it would seek peace in Ukraine but said this would be on its own terms, deflecting pressure for a tougher stance towards Russia. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told EU leaders that Beijing would push for peace in “its own way”, while President Xi Jinping said he hoped the EU would treat China “independently”, in a nod to Europe’s close ties with the United States. The EU told Beijing during the virtual summit with Li and Xi not to allow Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions…