China should see through Vladimir Putin's latest nuclear ploy and call him out on it

Only days ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping was paying Russian president Vladimir Putin a visit - to discuss their collaboration, but also to talk him out of nuclear escalation and into a peace process with Kyiv. Then Putin did the exact opposite. Let's all hope that Mr Xi sees this outrage as a personal affront and gives his "friend" in Moscow a good talking to at once. In perhaps the most insidious of his many nuclear threats against Ukraine and the West, Putin announced that he would station tactical nukes in Belarus, his fellow dictatorship and vassal state just to…