reporter: well, an opinion piece in one of the most widely read newspapers in the world does not happen by mistake. so that would have been approved from the very top. what we have seen, maybe in the earlier days there was mixed messaging around what china s position was going to be. it wasn t openly condemning the russian invasion, it wasn t even calling it an invasion, but what we re now seeing is a slight shift where the coverage or the position now is no longer pro-russia or anti-russia, but it does seem to be taking shape around helping ukraine, around supporting ukraine. in that sense china is trying to shape its own position as being a neutral player, one interested in the humanitarian issues around this conflict and one that may position it well to act as a mediator. as you were saying, joe, china is not wanting to risk anything
see no ukraine, because ukraine is an example of a national awareness of a policy that he is against. so he calls ukraine an anti-russia. because putin s demise the past to putin s demise lies through the freedom and democracy in ukraine, and therefore, the worst thing for him to hear in the last 15 years has been midon and midon revolution. that spelled the end for putin. do you see any scenario,