Days before the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony last year, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin inaugurated their "unlimited partnership." Three weeks later, the Olympics past, Putin's army invaded Ukraine.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the victim of aggression, has naturally been scathing in his condemnation of Putin. Yet he has been pointedly open to dealing with Putin's "partner without limits," Xi Jinping.Zelensky, as so often, is showing prescient sensitivity, in his delicate handling of China, to the painful geopolitical circumstances his nation confronts.China lie…READ FULL ARTICLE
