The soviet union and the united states, and now, russia, the soviet union's successor state or the closest thing there was to it, basically finds itself in the position to where it needs china in a way it never did in the cold war. and you have three players. now, do the chinese want to fully back him, no, as the ambassadors have said, but at the same time, the chinese do see an advantage of putin distracting us and costing us time, resources and mind share. so i suspect along the way, china is going to quickly determine that they can use russia to their advantage in this regard. it is going t...