Is China Losing Patience with Russia’s War?
By NOAH ROTHMAN *
China’s supposed peace overture is likely a product of its unease with how its junior partner in Eurasia has prosecuted the conflict.
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For months, political observers have been confronted with growing evidence that the formerly durable consensus in the West around the need to support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s war of territorial expansion is eroding. This developing trend has been met with both trepidation and jubilance, depending on the observer’s political affinities. The risks associated with drawing a potentially fallacious straight-line projection into the future notwithstanding, the trend is real, and no one can afford to ignore it....