A careful examination of recent events should discourage any wishful thinking that Beijing is distancing itself from Moscow.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 16, 2022. Credit: Sergei Bobylev via AP
Following the recent setbacks suffered by Russia’s military in Ukraine, optimism has grown among Western analysts that China’s ties with its neighbor and ally may be fraying. Russian president Vlaidimir Putin’s acknowledgement, at last month’s summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders in Uzbekistan, that China has “questions and concerns” about the conflict was widely read as a sign of the challenges facing the “no-limits” friendship, which the two countries had declare
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