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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of China Providing Military Aid to Russia, Part 2

Mar 10, 2023 | 17:43 GMT

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit on Sept. 16, 2022.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit on Sept. 16, 2022.

(SERGEI BOBYLYOV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

This is the second in a two-part series examining how Beijing could weigh the costs and benefits of providing military aid to Moscow for its war in Ukraine. In part one, we laid out the two broad scenarios and their general impacts. In part two, we delve deeper to examine various aspects of China's cost-benefit analysis on providing lethal weapons aid to Russia....

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