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China are not going to get involved any time soon. Their economy would collapse should Western countries cease trade with them. For example 15% of US trade alone is with China.

There's plenty of whispers about, but it would be suicide for China to become embroiled in a war that has nothing to do with them, and that could then quickly escalate into a global conflict. And they know this. Xi Jingping is a lot shrewder and much more astute than Putin will ever be.

Not one bit worried about damaging relations with Russia, Worried that we have not stopped relations with Russia!

Russia have made the choice to do evil, lets not engage with such people and instead focus all our energy on helping Ukraine.

Well they were involved..

Having launched a heap load of cyber attacks across Ukraine services and infrastructure in February before and during start of the war.

So looks like the have thrown in their lot already. They're never sending troops because that's not the Chinese way. It will be money and trade assistance

They might already be "embroiled" as it appears the cyber attack on Ukraine civil and defence systems at the commencement of the invasion was of Chinese origin.

As someone already posted the war with authoritarian regimes has been under way for some time. The West has chosen to ignore it and any incendiary utterances made by Moskow or Beijing. It's long past time to get the finger out. China are well fit to stand on their own now without the West anyway so let them at it.

It's all about the money.

China will not risk sanctions and financial repercussions by alienating their biggest markets.China are just flexing some muscle but won't fully back the Russians.

It's all about the money.

Nobody knows what China will do. All this talk of economic suicide needs to be balanced with the fact it would be similarly devastating for western economies.

Similar to the current game of chicken over pay in rubles or we turn off the taps. Both sides lose.

Very scummy thing to do.

People making excuses for China just like people made excuses for Russia 3 months ago.

We're fooling ourselves with the China will not get involved rhetoric.

I obviously meant involved militarily.

China may well have done some "cyber" assisting at the outset but like many, it's likely they've also had the wool pulled over their eyes by Putin who would have indicated it was a short in and out job in separatist regions.

You wont see any military assistance from China whatsoever as the results would cripple them, in addition to being the precursor to another World War. It's my belief that this conflict will die a slow death and Russia will settle at the negotiating table the moment they've secured the regions in the east. That's not to say that Putin wont still be a massive danger in the future if he remains in power as he'll believe in his mind that there's "unfinished business".

Hows the shielding going ambassador

History reliving itself perhaps?

I read it couldnt happen from the US as any arms sale needs an export license to be approved by Congress and them voting for that would effectively be the US entering the war. They already scuppered the Poland to Ukraine MiG deal so its not happening.

This in relation to Sean Penn calling on billionaires yesterday to crowdfund and buy Ukraine a squadron of fighter jets. I had to check it wasnt an April Fools gag but he was deadly serious. More than likely the idea came from Zelensky himself as Penn is close to Zelensky, he has been working with him filming a documentary on Ukraine for Vice. Zelensky facilitated him filming on the front lines in Donbas last November and he allowed Penn to film a war cabinet meeting in Kyiv just two days before the Russian invasion began. Given Penns good timing and access to Zelensky the documentary still in production is now considered hot property, they're expecting a bidding war between Amazon and Netflix to secure the rights to it.