China May Be Biggest Winner From Ukraine Crisis
Mike Eckel
September 01, 2014 9:26 AM
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 Russias 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 Russias annexation of Crimea was unusual, given Beijings traditional stance on such votes, but it comes as bilateral ties have been on the upswing for years now.
Two generations ago, ties between Leonid Brezhnevs Russia and Mao Zedongs China were fraught. The two fought small-scale skirmishes in 1969 along the Ussuri River border (the Wusuli in Chinese) that almost resulted in war.
Thats a distant memory now.
China may win out from the Ukraine crisis? asked Martha Brill Olcott, a longtime scholar of Russia and Central Asian politics. I think the word is will. China will absolutely benefit.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Ukraine and Greater China will be having border disputes.
Adam051188
(711 posts)should be spelled c.r.i.b.s.