With the war in Ukraine approaching its second anniversary on Feb 24, attention remains mostly fixed on the intricacies of the military confrontation and the prospects for an eventual ceasefire.
But Europe’s biggest and bloodiest confrontation in decades has produced a far more consequential global development: cementing the partnership between China and Russia into what has become – in practice, if not yet in name – a durable strategic alliance.
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