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The Ukrainian government and its supporters are saying that we’re witnessing the start of the Third World War. This is partly just an attempt to talk the West into an even more dangerous confrontation with Russia. But it also ignores the fact that much of the world is sitting out the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine with its backers in Nato, the United States and the European Union. The most important example is China. President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a partnership “without limits” just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But, although Chinese media outlets have been very...
