States of Play by Sam Olsen

States of Play by Sam Olsen

Does China Covet the Russian Far East?

Why Moscow needs to keep itself interesting to Beijing if it wants to keep together.

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Sam Olsen
May 25, 2021
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Dear all

On Sunday we saw the Belarusian government arrange the diversion of a Lithuania-bound Ryanair plane so that it could take into custody a known dissident and opponent of the Lukashenko regime. 

On the face of it, this has little to do with what China wants. However, it is part of a pattern that is increasingly been taken by a number of non-Western…

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