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Much has been said about China’s growing global interests and influence. Yet Xi Jinping’s China (like the weak, isolated China pre-rise) abstained yet again from a draft UN resolution criticizing the Crimean referendum on secession.
Why so quiet, Beijing? In this column in Asahi Shinbun, I describe China’s conundrum in Ukraine.