In Ukraine, China finds itself on the road to nowhere

The best laid Belt and Road plans of Chinese President Xi Jinping are now going awry in Ukraine. Green energy and the technologies that were to fuel it, along with the ecological and global warming fixes that came with it, were once Beijing's calling cards to the European Union and the key to dominating its commercial markets. Now, thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin's disastrous war in Ukraine, China is faced with a road going nowhere in Europe. In fact, Xi, for failing to rein in Russia, is now perceived by the West as having blindly contributed to one disaster…