China and Ukraine

“China on Thursday denounced a report that it asked Russia to delay invading Ukraine until after the Beijing Winter Olympics… The article in The New York Times cited a ‘Western intelligence report’ considered credible by officials… Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Feb. 4, hours before the Olympics opening ceremony. The two countries issued a joint statement in which they declared ‘friendship between the two states has no limits, there are no ‘forbidden’ areas of cooperation.’…

“China is the only major government...