Putin seeks People's Republic of China support to war-to-victory stance

It appears that the PRC has made it clear that it does not want Russia to lose the war, but the social impacts of attrition cannot be estimated with certainty, and Xi likely does not want to see a crisis for Putin’s regime. Putin may remain obsessed with subjugating Ukraine, but his senior strategic partner has other priorities and may have limited tolerance for the inflated ambitions of the war-degraded neighbor.