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Ukraine on the Offensive

The Intercept Briefing

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China's Role in the Middle East

Alfred McCoy suggested that China is contemplating trying to be the main broker of an end to this war between Russia and Ukraine. Peter Bergen: I think Xi Jinping does not believe that Russia can in this meaningful, in a meaningful sense, win this war. He says if Russia is defeated, let alone collapses, then the United States will focus full bore on China. "Xi Jinping wants to pull off something dramatic," writes Bergen.

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