Why China might be the world's best hope to halt this savagery: In an extraordinary geopolitical shift, Beijing appears so appalled by Vladimir Putin's Ukraine terror that it seems to be trying to stop it.
Make no mistake, the Chinese Communist Party detests democracy and tramples on human rights.
But the leadership in Beijing appears so appalled by Vladimir Putin’s reckless onslaught on Ukraine that it now seems to be trying to stop it.
In an extraordinary geopolitical shift, we are seeing China emerge as the possible arbiter of European security.
On Friday, China surprisingly abstained at the United Nations Security Council in a vote condemning Russia.
Yesterday it repeated that action, while separately China’s foreign minister Wang Yi offered his country’s services in brokering a ceasefire.
China was ‘extremely concerned about the harm to civilians’, he said. Few could have foreseen this.
As Chinese relations with the West have chilled in recent years, the Russian regime has knitted a web of military, economic and financial ties with the communist dictatorship in Beijing.
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