Could China’s Support for Russia be Cracking?

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By Kris Osborn – President & Editor-In-Chief, Warrior Maven

Where is China? It is a question that resonates on so many levels given what is known about ongoing Russian-Chinese relations indicating a level of cooperation of great concern to the US and its NATO allies.

China & Russia

Early indications seemed to suggest that China is, as US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin put it, providing a “tacit” approval of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
However, the question of where China is is perhaps changing to a certain degree, at least according to public statements attributed to Chinese leadership. 

However, spoken gestures favoring a “peaceful solution” are falling on the Pentagon as hollow words, given that China has not joined the international community in support of sanctions.

“What we have not seen them do is being willing to sanction Russia, like so much of the rest of the international community, to condemn what the Russians are doing inside Ukraine,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters, according to a Pentagon transcript.

The exact level of Russian-Chinese cooperation may not be known, and it is something about which Kirby did not want to speculate. He did, however, express intense disappointment that the Chinese were not joining the growing community of international voices condemning Russia’s attack.