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A Rocket Just Made China’s Juggling Act Even Trickier
There are more questions than answers after a missile landed in NATO member Poland. Many will be asked in Beijing.
Treading a fine line.
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Sitting on a fence, as China is finding out, does not become more comfortable with time.
There’s plenty we do not yet know about the rocket that, on a day of massive strikes in Ukraine, fell in a village about 6 kilometers (4 miles) over the border in NATO member Poland, killing two people. Ukraine quickly blamed Moscow, which refuted the accusations. US President Joe Biden, though, has said there’s evidence the missile was not fired from Russia and reports on initial assessments suggest it came from Ukrainian forces, aiming at an incoming Russian one.