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Ambassador Mark Storella<\/a>, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy at the Pardee School, published an op-ed in\u00a0The Hill\u00a0<\/em>on China’s current stance towards Russia and its history of backing some of the worst human rights violators in the world. In the article, titled “Does China win betting on losers<\/a>,” Storella outlines China’s relationships with odious regimes – the Kim dynasty in North Korea, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and the military junta in Myanmar – and how they serve to benefit the country. He argues that China\u2019s foreign policy strategy is strictly pragmatic, structured around the strategic benefits relationships deliver rather than relationships with individual leaders.<\/p>\n In the case of Russia today, Storella says that China is attempting to have its cake and eat it too, refusing to block or even condemn Russia\u2019s brutal invasion while also suggesting some rhetorical distance from Moscow\u2019s atrocities. As Russia continues its violent invasion of Ukraine, he says that China whether China condemns Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion or not, it will be a calculated move driven by pragmatism and not abhorrence for the actions. The full op-ed can be read on\u00a0The Hill<\/em>‘s website<\/a>. Ambassador\u00a0Mark C. Storella<\/a>\u00a0was a United States Foreign Service Officer for over three decades serving as Ambassador to Zambia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, and Dean of the Leadership and Management School of the Foreign Service Institute. Storella is recipient of the Presidential Rank Award, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Excellence in Service Award, the Thomas Jefferson Award presented by American Citizens Abroad, and several Department of State superior and meritorious honor awards. Learn more about Ambassador Storella on his\u00a0faculty profile<\/a>. \u201cBeijing\u2019s long-term strategic calculus on Russia likely will not change and Beijing will apply the same strategic patience, lack of remorse, and ultimate flexibility to Russia that has served it in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":18697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[11835,1688,11535,8382,11713,9576,8511,9200,9073],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52316,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52309\/revisions\/52316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}