https://www.scmp.com/rss/511929/feed Stephen Zhao is president of the Global China Research Foundation, a China-focused think tank based in Canada. He holds an M.Phil in international relations from Oxford, specialising in energy policy and crisis decision-making, and has travelled extensively in Ukraine and China. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com With some 150,000 Russian troops amassed on the Ukrainian border, the world watches in trepidation as what could be the largest military conflict since World War II threatens to break out between Europe’s two largest nations. The Russian threat of force and the non-committal response of Western nations have led to comparisons of the current crisis to Hitler’s demand of the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia in 1938. However, the situation bears much closer resemblance to another conflict around... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167560/forget-compromise-ukrainians-wont-tolerate-subservience-russia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3167560/forget-compromise-ukrainians-wont-tolerate-subservience-russia?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:30:25 +0000