invasion, but it hasn't explicitly supported it either. china abstained on two un votes to condemn russia's invasion. beijing has also said the "national sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, including ukraine, should be respected and protected@. here's the cia director's take. and so it appears, as the financial times says, "russia's invasion of ukraine leaves china facing a difficult balancing act." there had even been hope among western leaders and ukraine that china would put pressure on russia to end this war. well, sergei lavrov briefed wang yi on ukraine today, and afterwards, china released a statement. here's stephen mcdonell on what was said. according to this readout, china hasn't criticised russia at all for the invasion in ukraine. in fact, as you mentioned,