A completely different position. As in China evaluated war in Ukraine

Mark Leonard British political scientist, director of the European Council on International Relations Where we see heroic self -defense based on the rules of order, others observe the last sigh of Western hegemony in the world, which quickly becomes multi -polar while people in the West view the war of Russia as an attack on The rules based on the rules, Chinese researchers see in it another harbinger of the end of American hegemony.

Although Americans and Europeans can argue with this position, it would be a mistake not to take it seriously. Is Russia invasion of Ukraine only the first among the conflicts that will make Europe similar to the Middle East in the coming years? Last week, a Chinese scientist who wished to maintain anonymity asked me this question, and his reasoning showed how different people were treating a war that changes the geopolitical European order.