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For the first year of the Ukraine crisis China very self-consciously stayed in the background. Not only did it avoid either condemning or condoning the war, but it also refrained from including itself in broader global discussions around the crisis. That is all changing now. Beijing, it seems, has decided to take a different tack, and its new approach positions Xi Jinping right at the centre of proceedings as a self-styled great statesman and peacemaker. China insists it is one of the only countries that has the power and indeed the credibility to broker any such peace. Unlike America and...
