Beijing's Moscow muddle: Sino-Russian relations after Ukraine

This edition of The Looking Glass looks at the drivers of Sino-Russian cooperation and explore how China's response to the implications of the Russian invasion of Ukraine may play out.

The authors suggest that China's response to date demonstrates that it is attempting to balance its desire to maintain the 'strategic relationship' with Russia, with the potential collateral damage to its interests that will likely flow from too close an association with an increasingly isolated Moscow.

The key question here is: does Beijing value its 'shared frame of mind' with Moscow about the injustices of the existing international order and vision for a 'multipolar' order more than the protection of its immediate interests?

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