No End in Sight? The West, China, and the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Asia-Pacific,
- EU and strategic partners,
- EU strategy and foreign policy,
- Europe in the World,
- European defence / NATO,
The West supports Ukraine as a non-belligerent. China purports to be neutral, but the West increasingly sees it as a non-belligerent on the side of Russia.
In a way, the West’s and China’s approaches are not dissimilar: doing enough for “their” side to stop it from losing the war, but otherwise sitting it out in the hope that the other side will somehow give up. That can hardly be called a strategy.
Both the West and China will have to review their strategies if they want to preserve their interests. Will this inevitably increase tensions between them?
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