Because the truth is that Ukraine is a country whose demands represent the democratically-expressed will of its people.
Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 17, 2022. Credit: Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo
It's worth keeping track of China's media these days to get the full measure of the moral and factual gulf that separates China from most of the rest of the world over the war in Ukraine. A few days ago, for example, when Russia was intensifying its attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine, the Global Times, the Communist Party's English-language mouthpiece, had this to say on the way the war is being waged by the Russians:
“They are a little hesitant between realizing military goals and prev
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