Xi Jinping won’t ditch Vladimir Putin, for now
China’s goal in Ukraine is Western disunity and failure, more than a Russian triumph
Vladimir putin owes Xi Jinping an apology, for he carried a whiff of failure into his meeting with China’s leader in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on September 15th. That taint of humiliation follows bruising Russian setbacks in the war on Ukraine that Mr Putin chose to wage.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “China will not ditch Russia, for now”
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