China should heed lessons from Russia's Ukraine invasion, US official says

Russia's poorly executed invasion of Ukraine and the international community's economic and diplomatic response are cautionary lessons for China and others who may want to attempt aggressive actions in the Pacific, the Pentagon's policy chief for the region said last Monday. "When we look at the types of acts of aggression that we worry about in the Indo-Pacific—and the Taiwan Strait being the top of that list—it's going to be very difficult, and I think that there are broad lessons there to be drawn from Ukraine," Ely Ratner, assistant defense secretary for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said at the Sea-Air-Space conference…