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Bobo Lo on Russia, Wagner and the Ukraine War

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CHAPTER

The Chinese's View of Russia

Russian history plays a massive role in the Chinese worldview and its view of itself. If things go really pear-shaped in Russia, that will very much worry the Chinese. In terms of bilateral relationship, Putin is absolutely the best option that China can have. The idea that somehow authoritarianism is more efficient than democracy was thoroughly disproved in the course of Putin's failed military operation in Ukraine.

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