Looking closely at Beijing’s ever evolving position on Russia’s war in Ukraine, it is clear the Chinese are thinking about it very differently from the West.
China doesn’t measure favorably when directly compared one-to-one with the US, so they know these strategic alliances are even more key. I assume they stand by allies to some extent, even if it looks bad or they’re losing, to avoid fracturing of alliances. Ukraine being a proxy war is something that is either lost upon or simply not talked about in the west much and you can see it in the very simplistic surface-level discussions people have about the war in western-centric internet communities.
China doesn’t measure favorably when directly compared one-to-one with the US, so they know these strategic alliances are even more key. I assume they stand by allies to some extent, even if it looks bad or they’re losing, to avoid fracturing of alliances. Ukraine being a proxy war is something that is either lost upon or simply not talked about in the west much and you can see it in the very simplistic surface-level discussions people have about the war in western-centric internet communities.