China’s Approach to the Crimean Crisis: International and Regional Dimensions
Journal: University of Lodz Repository (University of Łódź)
Year: 2015

For more than twenty years China has been considering Ukraine as one of its key partners in the post-Soviet area. In 2001, both states established a comprehensive partnership that had strategic content. Up to 2013, the Crimean Peninsula, alongside with other regions of Southeast Ukraine, was considered as one of the most important strongholds of the Sino-Ukrainian strategic partnership. The situation changed drastically in March 2014. As Russia and the West collided over Ukraine, China took adva