How long will China support Putin as he risks a world war?

The real question is rapidly becoming: is Xi willing to go along for the ride as Putin pushes everyone involved toward a world war with the explicit threat of using nuclear weapons?

Russian President Vladimir Putin, personally obsessed with regaining territory lost when the Soviet Union collapsed, has found a welcome partner in Chinese President Xi Jinping, writes Les Whittington. Photograph courtesy of the Kremlin

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

March 16, 2022

OTTAWA—Exactly how much China’s Xi Jinping knew in advance about Russian ruler Vladimir Putin’s plan to invade Ukraine has been a matter of dispute. But in retrospect, it’s obvious Putin wouldn’t have carried out the attack without getting the green light from his ally in Beijing. There�...

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