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China may use Ukrainian events to derive n-arms control benefits — expert

MOSCOW, May 15. /ITAR-TASS/. Today’s China is the sole power that has derived certain benefits from the crisis in Ukraine, and it may use the current situation to gain nuclear arms control advantages, the head of the Non-Proliferation Problems program at Moscow’s Carnegie Centre, Alexei Arbatov, has said at a seminar in Moscow on Thursday.

“The current crisis in Ukraine, which is part of the crisis between Russia and the West, has caused great harm to all parties, but there is one power that has made heavy gains. It is China, of course. That country has taken the niche Russia has contested all along from time immemorial: that of a mediator between the East and the West,” Arbatov said.