China exploiting Ukraine invasion - Taipei Times
Russia is sleepwalking into becoming a client state for China as the invasion of Ukraine prolongs. As Russia faces increasing international sanctions, China is playing an increasingly larger role in providing the financing that Russia needs to fund its war. China is exploiting the circumstances by buying cheap oil and gas from Russia while seeking ways to covertly fund Russia’s war on Ukraine to exhaust the US and its allies, and more importantly to pave the way to invade Taiwan. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is going to become a proxy war for China, in which Russia is the client state
Source: taipeitimes.com