Russia’s intermittent nuclear threats make a lot of in the West “freak out,” and the Kremlin likes creating that panic. But China’s 12-place peace proposal tends to make Moscow’s nuclear threats much less credible, CNBC’s Ted Kemp reviews.
China’s system for Ukrainian peace has elements that Putin is not going to like
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