China and the Ukraine

http://china.org.cn/world/2014-04/16/content_32107624.htm

In the tumultuous events of the Ukrainian revolution of late China has been adamant in their position of

peaceful negotiation. While it seems initially that China just wants to be a good neighbor in the world, but the

true reasons are a little bit more pragmatic. China has control of a very large portion of land in the Ukraine,

which China generally rents out, and if the conflict continues or escalates it will hurt China's holdings. China

though is still pushing for peace, which hopefully will be the end result of negotiations between the countries.

From a political lens, we can see that China is trying to keep the Ukraine and Russia away from each others

throats, even if the reasons are less than altruistic. In fact China is willing to try and even set up a security

conference with several countries including Russia.