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“Unless we get a peace deal involving Russia and Ukraine, this provides an opportunity for the hawks in Beijing to say, ‘This is our chance, let’s go,'” says Mike Pillsbury, director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.
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