providing. >> china's refused to refer to this as an invasion and against the economic sanctions that the west imposed on russia and then promoting negotiations between russia and ukraine. so why are they maintaining this posture and does this put china in potentially the strongest position to get putin to make a deal? >> i think it's a really good question. i want to take a step back. i think we need to think about how china is viewing this. centralized and focused on what they are worried about which is taiwan and want to be careful of a reintegration of territory. that is putin's perspective. looking at taiwan they want if they took action against taiwan seen as a police action of some