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Opinion

Was China duped on Ukraine?

Beijing is now in damage control mode

| China
Units of the Russian armed forces enter Kyiv region on Mar. 3: this time, it is China's partner Russia that has gone to war, not its rival, America.   © Reuters

Bilahari Kausikan is former Permanent Secretary of Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Western intelligence reportedly knew that China asked Russia in early February not to invade until after the Beijing Winter Olympics.

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