
Crisis in Ukraine and Putin's long game
Lowy Institute
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Do You Really Want to Be Associated With the Worst of Russian Actions?
There's an obvious contradiction, because it would create a potentially alarming precedent whereby break away territories of what china considers to be essentially its own could themselves declare independence. That that is why chinais so profoundly conservative on these matters. And the good side for china is this, for much of byden's first year as president, china has been essentially enemy number one of the united states. It e its reputation in much of europe has been freefall. So suddenly china is an enemy number one. But there is a good side. Because russia's behaving so badly, china actually comes out, if not smelling of roses, at least in considerably better odor than
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