At the U.N., Beijing Begins to Shift Away From Putin

Beijing and Moscow have long maintained a united front against the West. That’s changing as a rising China begins to chart its own course.

BY COLUM LYNCH-OCTOBER 21, 2015

In late September, a Chinese foreign ministry delegation held a closed-door meeting at the United Nations’ New York headquarters with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and gave him some good news: Beijing was prepared to vote in favor of Ukraine’s bid for a seat on the U.N. Security Council despite a campaign by Russia to thwart its adversary’s ambitions, according to U.N.-based diplomats familiar with the meeting.

At the U.N., Beijing Begins to Shift Away From Putin by Thavam Ratna