China May Be Biggest Winner From Ukraine Crisis

Thousands of miles away from the Ukrainian battlefields of Donetsk and Novoazovsk sits the country that may end up being the largest beneficiary of the turmoil along Russia’s southwest border: China. With Russian President Vladimir Putin rewriting the playbook on security in post-Cold War Europe, Beijing has watched warily 3,700 miles to the east, though without protest or interference. Its abstention from a U.N. Security Council resolution vote in March that condemned Russia’s...

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