It's time to offer Russia an off-ramp - China can help with that
China has a significant economic interest in a quick resolution to the war in Ukraine
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A Ukrainian soldier directs a Russian tank that Ukrainians captured outside Brovary, near Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 10.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Wang Huiyao
(NYTIMES) - Casualties are mounting in Ukraine. Bombs continue to fall. More than two million refugees have fled the fighting. Russia's President Vladimir Putin seems to have assumed he could get a swift victory, underestimating the fierce resistance from Ukraine.
Over two weeks in, Moscow is intensifying its assault on Ukraine, and Western nations in turn are intensifying their financial and economic punishments against Russia, including by triggering the financial "nuclear option" - banning some Russian banks from the Swift payment system. Meanwhile, Mr Putin has put his actual nuclear forces on high alert.
