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Ukraine - a battleground of strategic assumptions
Predictions of an easy Russian victory are among those put to the test. The developments will surely be closely monitored by China.
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Captured Russian tanks, including one painted in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, in the north of Ukraine's Kharkiv region on March 4, 2022.
PHOTO: REUTERS
Weeks before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his tanks into Ukraine, many Western politicians and strategy experts were arguing confidently that a war in Europe would produce only one chief beneficiary: China.
They predicted that US President Joe Biden, who came to office identifying China as America's biggest security challenge, will be compelled to divert both attention and resources to Europe and away from Asia, something punters claimed would be a clear advantage for China.
