News Analysis China’s regime is stepping into the economic breach for Moscow. While the rest of the world sacrifices by rapidly increasing sanctions on Russia for its bloody invasion of Ukraine, Beijing works quietly behind the scenes to ensure that Russia increases exports to China, and that Chinese companies keep doing business in Moscow’s empire. This profits the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with the blood of Ukrainian patriots. Xi Jinping is at least partially at fault as he apparently refused to discourage Vladimir Putin from the invasion in advance. And given the lack of Western action against China and Russia’s depredations, why would he? A military conflict between Russia and the West only weakens China’s adversaries in America and Europe. Xi’s promise of a “no limits” friendship with Russia just before the invasion enabled Putin’s disastrous military conflict, which will open a power vacuum globally for Beijing. Perhaps in exchange, …
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