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Opinion: Ukraine’s fate hinges on US need to drive a wedge between Russia and China again

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U.S. faces diminishing options after three years of deepening entanglement in Ukraine , writes Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: The war has distracted America from pressing challenges in the Indo-Pacific region .

China has emerged as the big winner, as the conflict has ensnared NATO and Russia , Zelizer says.

Ending the Ukraine war would enable the U.K. to reallocate military resources from Europe to the region.

A Chinese annexation of Taiwan would reshape the global order, ending America ’s global preeminence.

A U.S.-Russia peace deal must be reached before Beijing and Moscow can cement a strategic axis that erodes America 's global primacy.

As Biden himself acknowledged, a “negotiated settlement” is the only viable path to ending the war.

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