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Is China helping Russia fight Ukraine?

Assessing Beijing鈥檚 role in the conflict

Last week at the Nato summit, leaders called China a 鈥榙ecisive enabler鈥 of the war in Ukraine - a statement that Beijing denies.

So what is China鈥檚 role in this conflict?

We鈥檙e joined by historian Rana Mitter and Spectator journalist Cindy Yu to try and make sense of it all.

Today鈥檚 episode is presented by James Coomarasamy and Vitaly Shevchenko.

The producers were Arsenii Sokolov and Cordelia Hemming. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Richard Fenton-Smith.

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