to use its influence with moscow to urge diplomacy. because if there is a conflict in ukraine, it is not going to be good for china either. there will be a significant impact on the global economy, there'll be a significant impact in the energy sphere and it will be all the harder for all of us to get back to what we should be doing, which is building back better. artyom lukin is an international relations scholar at the vladivostok far eastern federal university. earlier, iasked him how beijing is approaching the ongoing crisis. well, actually, i'm not sure china is not interested in the conflict between russia and the west... unintelligible ..but cynically speaking, from the realpolitik perspective, china should be interested in a clash over ukraine, just because it would assure that russia would remain china's ally,