both facing isolation. but vladimir putin had more at stake going into this meeting as he s looking to shore up chinese support. so when putin acknowledged that he was aware that china has questions and concerns about russia s war in ukraine, it was a rare admission that material support is unlikely to come from beijing and that beijing is unlikely to take a clearer position on the war. we know to this point that china has neither backed rusia s war nor has it condemned it. it doesn t mean that china/russia relations are any weaker, but they perhaps aren t any stronger. x jinping was speaking in generalizations. the read out of the meeting seemed somewhat detached. they talked about deepening trade ties and offering support for each other on core
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under the taiwan relations act to provide taiwan with the military means to defend itself. china then came back through a statement saying taiwan is an alienable part of china s territory and purely china s internal affairs which has no interference, china s core interests, such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, china has no room for compromise. where does this leave us, james? the white house statement was not true. the reason this was news is precisely because what the president said went against the long standing policy and we have had this strategic ambiguity, first we saw china as a useful counter weight to the soviet union during the cold war, and then we see potential for democratic opportunities, and thought the relationship would