This isn't yer granddaddy's or daddy's world it's become a global community with lots of different players outside Europe and North America who are having a bigger say in Global affairs. If Vlad loses this war and his military and economy are destroyed, Xi will have a free hand in central Asia, his own backyard and hinterland. Perhaps even the resources of former Russian federation republics who will be independent countries that China will control trough economic soft power. It is in his interests now that Russia be defeated and economically destroyed, as long as he has an accommodation with the west about how it is done. Tawain is a nonstarter; global technology is utterly dependent on Tawain until we can onshore chip manufacture and that takes several years, it would mean instant war with a lot more countries than America.
Xi warns Putin not to go nuclear
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“Russia hasn’t yet understood that it’s most likely going to lose the war.” William Courtney is the former special assistant to the US President for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, and is also the former US ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. He tells Henry Bonsu on
#TimesRadio that it was “humiliating” for President Putin when President Xi of China gave him a “clear warning” that he would not support the use of nuclear weapons of Ukraine.