In a nuclear war, 'there will be no security for anyone, not for Ukraine, and not for the world,' the Global Times wrote in an editorial on Sunday.
David Shullman, senior director of the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub, toldeditorial should not be read as a willingness from Beijing to end the war, but rather, a call to the West to cede to Russia's position that the U.S. and NATO are to blame for the conflict, and that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was legitimate under the pretext it felt threatened by NATO's expansion into the country.
"Yes, China does legitimately want the war to end, because it does not serve its strategic aims and the war clearly not going well for Russia, Beijing's most important strategic partner," Shullman wrote in an email."But rather than encourage any change on Putin's part, Xi is doubling down on blame of the U.S. and NATO as the bad actors somehow forcing Putin to increasingly threaten the West.
The editorial comes amid a tumultuous week in the conflict in which Putin delivered a nationally televised address declaring the country would be annexing four occupied territories along the Russia-Ukraine border, marking another escalation in Russia's nearly eight-month long campaign in the country amid
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