{"id":41903,"date":"2022-02-23T01:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/22\/ukraine-crisis-poses-dilemma-for-china-but-also-opportunity"},"modified":"2022-02-23T01:05:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:05:25","slug":"ukraine-crisis-poses-dilemma-for-china-but-also-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41903","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine crisis poses dilemma for China but also opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: While Xi and Putin have pledged closer cooperation, there are growing economic ties between Beijing and Kyiv<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Ukraine crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The unfolding crisis in Ukraine poses a diplomatic dilemma for China but also offers an opportunity for Beijing as Joe Biden\u2019s administration is likely to continue to be distracted by Russia ahead of the US mid-term elections later this year.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s position in this round of Russia v the west is under particularly heavy scrutiny following Xi Jinping\u2019s pledge with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on 4 February that there would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/04\/xi-jinping-meets-vladimir-putin-china-russia-tensions-grow-west\">\u201cno \u2018forbidden\u2019 areas of cooperation\u201d<\/a> in their bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/22\/ukraine-crisis-poses-dilemma-for-china-but-also-opportunity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: While Xi and Putin have pledged closer cooperation, there are growing economic ties between Beijing and KyivUkraine crisis \u2013 live updatesThe unfolding crisis in Ukraine poses a diplomatic dilemma for China but also offers an opportunity for B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,419,930,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41904,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41903\/revisions\/41904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}