Minxin Pei Minxin Pei, professor at Claremont McKenna College, is a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. How China views the Ukraine crisis Beijing may be 6,500km from Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, but the geopolitical stakes for China in the escalating crisis over Ukraine’s fate could not be higher. 4 February 2022, 18:00 PM 4 February 2022, 18:00 PM