{"id":41972,"date":"2022-02-25T21:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/china-ponders-how-russia-actions-ukraine-reshape-world-order"},"modified":"2022-02-25T21:05:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:05:29","slug":"china-ponders-how-russias-actions-in-ukraine-could-reshape-world-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41972","title":{"rendered":"China ponders how Russia\u2019s actions in Ukraine could reshape world order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is walking a diplomatic tightrope but crisis also offers the opportunity to express grievances against its adversaries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/25\/russia-ukraine-invasion-latest-news-live-updates-russian-war-vladimir-putin-explosions-bombing-invades-kyiv\">Russia-Ukraine crisis: live news<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The news came as a surprise to many in Beijing. Barely 24 hours ago, Chinese pundits predicted that a war in Ukraine was not inevitable. In New York, as Russia geared up for a full-on assault on its neighbour, China\u2019s UN envoy, Zhang Jun, urged in a security council meeting that \u201cthe door to a peaceful solution to the Ukraine issue is not fully shut, nor should it be shut\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But when people in Kyiv woke up to sound of bombs in what the Nato chief called a \u201cdeliberate, cold-blooded\u201d invasion, the door had clearly been closed. China\u2019s state media, however, insisted it was a \u201cspecial military action\u201d by Russia. Quoting Vladimir Putin, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CGTNOfficial\/status\/1496888911830085638\">China\u2019s central television tweeted<\/a>: \u201cRussia was left with no other choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/china-ponders-how-russia-actions-ukraine-reshape-world-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing is walking a diplomatic tightrope but crisis also offers the opportunity to express grievances against its adversariesRussia-Ukraine crisis: live newsThe news came as a surprise to many in Beijing. Barely 24 hours ago, Chinese pundits predicted&#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":[41,50,221,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41972","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=41972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42040,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41972\/revisions\/42040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}