In this episode we’re speaking to journalist Lucrezia Goldin. She focuses on China. She’s lived there and speaks the language fluently. She’s talking to us about how China has taken advantage of Russia’s recklessness since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. China is not quite the best friend of Russia that many warhawks make out. It's more complicated than that.

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Audio Essay 111 - Waiting for the Barbarians, J. M. Coetzee