I found these articles useful for my column and recommend them for further reading:China:Is Taiwan next?Why China Is Struggling to Deal With Russia’s War in UkraineWhat Is China Learning from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine?Russia :No, You’re Not Imagining It: Russia’s Army Is IneptHow Vladimir Putin Miscalculated the Economic Cost of Invading UkraineHow Russia’s Nobel-Winning Newspaper Is Covering UkraineTony Wood on the war in UkraineDispatches from KyivThe Armies of the Right: Inside Ukraine’s extremist militiasIvan Ilyin, Putin’s Philosopher of Russian FascismThe Philippines, Russia, and China: Russia in the Asia-Pacific: Less Than Meets the EyePH-Russia relations: A long way to goRussia’s pivot to Tokyo courtesy of Trump