The view from Moscow and Beijing: What peace in Ukraine and a post-conflict world look like to Xi and Putin
- Written by Ronald Suny, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan

Just a few days after being branded a war criminal in an international arrest warrant, Russian President Vladimir Putin was talking peace with his most important ally, Chinese president Xi Jinping.
The setting for the get-together was the late-15th-century Faceted Chamber, the ornate...