If nothing else, Chinese president Xi Jinping's call to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky signals that China is getting serious with its mediation efforts not least because of increasing tensions in the western alliance and doubts about the success of a Ukrainian counteroffensive, writes Stefan Wolff and Tatyana Malyarenko.
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