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Deals with the eu and u.s., the economic risks might be too great for china. >> it is doing deep, significant harm to china's interests to attach itself to the burning and sinking ship that is vladimir putin. china has backed the wrong horse. >> reporter: but with a stated willingness to mediate the crisis, china appears to still be straddling how best to keep its economic ties to the west without abandoning its ideological allegiance to a fellow autocracy. david culver, cnn, shanghai. we'll take a short break. when we come back, the u.s. war veterans traveling to ukraine, training volunteer...

>> it is doing deep significant harm to china interest. to attack itself to the earning and sinking ship that is vladimir putin. china backed the wrong horse. >> with the stated willingness to mediate the crisis, china appears to still be strike that lg how best to keep the economic ties to the west. without abandoning its ideology allegiance to a fellow autocracy. earlier i spoke with serving on the u.s. national security counsel and at the state department. he was also the deputy staff director of the u.s. senate committee on foreign relations. when it was chaired by then senator joe biden...

China does not respond well to being told what to do, especially when balancing this idea of betraying their neighbor, their allegiance to a fellow autocracy. in siding with the west, jim, we know they may also be protecting the chinese economy, which has slowed dramatically. there are more lock downs in place, including what we're in right now in shanghai. they're feeling the economic pressures, and if there is more of that, economic instability, as you know, is social instability. they're navigating this carefully. >> a great point. no permanent allies, only permanent interests. chick intere...