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To understand the broad context within which current developments in Ukraine should be considered,see

“Ukraine War, October 26, 2022: The context for analysis of current developments; The “dirty bomb” as a Russian propaganda distraction from current war crimes,” The Trenchant Observer, October 26, 2022.

Dispatches

1) Martina Meister, Clemens Wergin, und Christina zur Nedden, “Jetzt rüttelt China an den Grundfesten der internationalen Ordnung,” Die Welt, den 25. April 2023 (13:41 Uhr);

2) Martina Meister, Clemens Wergin, and Christina zur Nedden, “Martina Meister, Clemens Wergin, und Christina zur Nedden, “Now China is shaking the foundations of the international order,” Die Welt, April 25, 2023 (1:41 p.m.);

3) Editorial, “Le double langage diplomatique de la Chine; ,” La position ambiguë de Pékin, qui affirme soutenir « les objectifs et les principes de la Charte des Nations unies » tout en se refusant de les appliquer au cas ukrainien, pèse sur sa crédibilité et consacre un rapport de force brutal avec les Occidentaux,” Le Monde, le 25 avril 2023 (12:00 heures);

4) Editotial, “China’s dual diplomatic language;;Beijing’s ambiguous position, which claims to support “the objectives and principles of the United Nations Charter” while refusing to apply them to the Ukrainian case, weighs on its credibility and enshrines a brutal balance of power with the West. Le Monde, April 25, 2023 (12:00 p.m.);

5) “‘Mrs. Colonna, we ask you to declare the Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye persona non grata’; The Chinese ambassador to France denied, during an interview on LCI, the sovereignty of countries from the Soviet Union. Nearly 80 European parliamentarians call, in an op-ed in the “World”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs not to remain unanswered to such attacks,” Le Monde, April 23, 2023 (6:34 p.m., updated at 9:39 p.m);
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