Russia’s war in Ukraine is highlighting the role of China as an implicit or explicit guarantor of Russia’s financial viability going forward. The West’s sanctions of Russian banks on SWIFT and the Bank of Russia’s reserves will hurt, but China offers repeated opportunities for Russia to maintain a majority of business as usual going forward. Will China’s banks toe the government’s line at the risk of losing their global banking privileges, effectively extending sanctions to those entities as well?
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